Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree to Be Chopped Down
A 14-ton tree is going to make Rockefeller Center its home this holiday season and you can bet that thousands of of Christmas lovers will flock to New York City to see it.
The 88th tree to grace the Plaza for the annual weeks-long display will be cut down Thursday at the home of Carol Schultz in Florida in New York's Orange County.
The Norway Spruce stands at 77-foot tall and it is 46-foot in diameter. It will be hoisted by a crane onto a 115-foot long trailer and transported into Manhattan, where it will be erected on Saturday, Nov. 9.
After being adorned with more than 50,000 multi-colored lights and crowned with the iconic Swarovski star, the tree will be illuminated for the first time during a live television broadcast on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
It'll be on display until Friday, Jan. 14, 2020.
Last year's tree was a 72-foot, 12-ton Norway spruce from Shirley Figueroa and Lissette Gutierrez in Wallkill.
The first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up in 1931 by workers building the complex during the Great Depression. The first official tree lighting there was in 1933.
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