Jim Glaub never intended to be Santa Claus. But the hundreds of letters that appeared on his doorstep every Christmas season convinced him otherwise.
Glaub and his husband, Dylan, have been mysteriously receiving letters addressed to Santa since 2007 when they moved to apartment No. 7 at a West 22nd Street complex. They didn't think much of it at first since previous tenants said they'd also gotten these letters for no clear reason.
But after receiving hundreds of letters in 2010, they decided to put on their red hats and get to work. This year, nearly 400 letters poured in, and all of them will be answered by Glaub's elves.
They've since created a Facebook group with helpers from across the world, and they scan each letter and email them to a family who wants to buy the gifts on the child's wish list. The letters always come from the Bronx, Harlem, Queens and other areas of New York City with significant low-income populations, but they aren't sure why those children wrote to Santa at a Chelsea apartment on 22nd Street.
Read more on Motherboard
Advertisement