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It’s about to look a lot like Christmas at Rockefeller Center.
This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was cut down on Thursday and made its way from West Edmeston, New York, to midtown Manhattan Friday night.
The 76-foot Norway spruce arrived at Rockefeller Center late in the evening and will be driven onto Center Plaza at 7:30 a.m. Saturday as part of Meet the Tree Day.
It will be put upright, and then the decorating and other work begins to begin the holiday season.
The conifer is approximately 75 years old and measures 50 feet in diameter.
A crane hoisted the tree onto a flatbed truck before its 200-mile trip to its perch at Rockefeller Center, where it will overlook the center’s iconic skating rink.
The tree will be wrapped with more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and crowned with a 900-pound Swarovski star. It will be lit during a televised ceremony on Dec. 2.
The tradition dates back to 1931, when crews building Rockefeller Center put up a small Christmas tree with handmade garlands. The first formal lighting ceremony took place in 1933.
The Rockefeller Christmas tree will be on display until Jan. 9, after which it will be milled into lumber for the housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity.
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