Where Are The Best Holiday Lighs In Hoboken? Readers Picked

HOBOKEN, NJ — Every year, residents of Hoboken spread joy with their holiday displays. This year, Hoboken Patch put out a call for readers to submit their favorites.

Sheilah Scully, a Hoboken resident with a photographer's eye, sent some of her favorites from neighbors. See above.

Patch and T-Mobile are grateful for the joy the displays have brought. And they're not alone.

“It does create that neurological shift that can produce happiness,” Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York’s Adelphi University, told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out ... signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it’s pleasing or not.”

Decorating for the holidays “will spike dopamine, a feel-good hormone,” she said. “For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence. It’s a time of joy.”

Happy holidays!