{"id":365747,"date":"2025-11-09T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:06:14","slug":"rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-arrives-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365747\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree<\/a> was hoisted aloft at its new home in Manhattan on Saturday, marking the start of New York City\u2019s holiday season. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s tree is a 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Norway spruce from the upstate town of East Greenbush, a suburb of Albany. After being cut down this week, it made the roughly 150-mile (240-kilometer) journey south on a flatbed truck<\/a>, drawing curious onlookers along the way. <\/p>\n

The crowds were much bigger at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where workers used cranes to hoist the 11-ton tree into position overlooking the iconic skating rink. People gathered with coffee cups and phones as crews secured the spruce and began the careful process of stabilizing it. <\/p>\n

The tree will soon be decorated with more than 50,000 multicolored, energy-efficient LED lights and crowned with a Swarovski star weighing 900 pounds (408 kilograms). <\/p>\n

It will be lit Dec. 3 during a live TV broadcast hosted by country music star Reba McEntire and remain on display until mid-January, after which it will be milled into lumber for use by the affordable housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. <\/p>\n

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The tree was donated by homeowner Judy Russ and her family. She said it was planted by her husband\u2019s great-grandparents in the 1920s. <\/p>\n

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\u201cFor this to now become the center of New York City Christmas is incredible,\u201d Russ told the radio station 1010 WINS<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up by workers in 1931 to raise spirits during the Great Depression. The comparatively modest 20-foot (6-meter) balsam fir was outfitted with garlands handmade by the workers\u2019 families.<\/p>\n

The tradition stuck as the first tree-lighting ceremony was held in 1933.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was hoisted aloft at its new home in Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[20184,5229,44679,57,7709,1165,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,78852,177009,18090,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-365747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-holidays","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-reba-mcentire","22":"tag-russ","23":"tag-trees","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115517063491810959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365747","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=365747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}