Thousands of revellers descend on NYC for annual Santa-themed bar crawl SantaCon

The booze-fuelled stroll – which included no shortage of Grinches, elves and other Christmas-themed costumes – kicked off at 10am in bars and clubs in midtown Manhattan

A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a beer as he and others participate in SantaCon (John Minchillo/AP)

Here come Santa Clauses. Again.

Throngs of people dressed as jolly Old St Nick descended on New York City for the annual SantaCon charity pub crawl on Saturday.