NEW YORK, New York — Rockefeller Center revealed today that their 2025 Christmas tree will be a 75-year-old Norway spruce, donated by a family in East Greenbush, NY.
The 75-foot tall, 11-ton spruce will be cut on Thursday, November 6, 2025, and travel from the Russ family’s property in Rensselaer County to Rockefeller Center on Saturday, November 8, 2025.
The tree will glow with more than 50,000 multi-colored LED lights nestled among its branches and a three-dimensional 9-foot-4-inch Swarovski star will crown its pinnacle. The decorations are also impressively big: the star weighs approximately 900 pounds and features 70 spikes covered in 3 million crystals, and stretched end-to-end, the string lights are approximately 5 miles long.
Following a lighting on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, the tree will remain on display until mid-January 2026.
After the holiday season ends, the tree will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.
Rockefeller Center’s first Christmas tree appeared in 1931, when construction workers building the famous Art Deco complex put up their own Christmas tree.
Since then, the tree lighting ceremony has become a hallmark of New York City’s Christmas celebrations and a hotspot for tourists and New Yorkers alike.
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