If the place has three moons, I'm in!

I'm gonna disagree with this a bit. There's rarely much traffic until you hit within 5 miles of the city going in. Coming out, it can be a nightmare along 95 at any point. Typically, there will be stop-and-go traffic for a bit, then you're going, then there's another slowdown. My morning commute was typically before the rush, and that rarely took 30 minutes to around Penn Station. Coming back was 40 minutes minimum, and sometimes up to an hour. It may be better post-COVID.

Where do people in this thread shop? You can buy red bananas at most halfway decent Asian groceries (H-Mart, for example), and sometimes they're even at Wegmans. It's not like they're some rare thing only known in villages near where they grow or something.

We've been getting our tree at Franks since we moved to the area in 2015. Great selection, fair prices, they'll put it on the top of the car for you, and you can buy cider, wreaths, and other holiday stuff while you're there.