Fleeced Navidad: Bonkers Christmas displays cost more than ever

By Allison Hope

Ho, ho … oh: Inflation and supply chain problems mean that it’s more expensive than ever for festive New Yorkers to deck their halls.

The Grinch-like price gouging and empty shelves have been especially rough on Joe Mure of Belle Harbor, Queens. For the last 20 years, the 60-year-old criminal defense attorney and 2018 home decorating champion of ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has turned his four-bedroom home into a local holiday attraction dubbed “The Little North Pole.”

Last week, he invited neighbors over for his annual tree lighting which is “better than Rockefeller Center,” he said. The most lit house in the neighborhood, and possibly the city, Mure’s home display is a dazzling feat that takes an army and a calendar commitment to pull off.