What does it take to be a professional Santa in NYC?

NEW YORK (WPIX) – With one less weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this holiday season is a mad sleigh dash for the fleet of professional Santas covering New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

The pressure to meet Kris Kringle's impossible standard can be intense. But the Santas are supported by a strong “brotherhood” of men, many of whom never intended to embody the holiday icon, held together by “the moral example of Santa himself.”

“I become Taylor Swift for one month a year.