{"id":364742,"date":"2025-11-08T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:47:16","slug":"rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-arrives-in-nyc-for-2025-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364742\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives in NYC for 2025 holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrived Saturday in New York City to usher in the 2025 holiday season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 75-foot Norway Spruce made the 150-mile journey from the Albany suburbs to Manhattan after it was cut down Thursday at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-2025-east-greenbush-ny\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a farm in East Greenbush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-rockefeller-christm-wcbsfpol-hi-res-still-00-00-2215.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"new-rockefeller-christm-wcbsfpol-hi-res-still-00-00-2215.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives in Midtown Manhattan on Nov. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                LLN NYC<\/p>\n<p>It will take several hours to put up the iconic tree, which weighs 11 tons, at 30 Rockefeller Center, between West 49th Street and 50th in Midtown.  <\/p>\n<p>The tree will be decorated with more than 50,000 lights and topped with a Swarovski crystal star before the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/rockefeller-center-tree-lighting-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">tree lighting<\/a> on December 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tree will remain on display until mid-January 2026. After it comes down, it will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity, according to organizers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ap25310597862463.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"2025 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Cutting \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Workers prepare to crane a wrapped 75-foot tall, 11-ton Norway Spruce, that will serve as this year&#8217;s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, onto a flatbed truck, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in East Greenbush, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>                Diane Bondareff\/AP Content Services for Tishman Speyer<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Rockefeller Center tree was selected from a farm in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/rockefeller-christmas-tree-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">West Stockbridge, Massachusetts<\/a>, the first time it was picked from that state since 1959. Last year&#8217;s tree was approximately 74 feet tall and 70 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tradition dates back to 1931, when workers pooled their money to buy a tree and their families made decorations. The first official tree lighting was held two years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrived Saturday in New York City to usher in the 2025 holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":364743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,66772,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-364742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-rockefeller-center","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115514628766564773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}