{"id":33360,"date":"2025-11-08T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:22:13","slug":"rockefeller-christmas-tree-arrives-in-new-york-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33360\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller Christmas Tree Arrives In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The towering Christmas tree that will light up Rockefeller Center this holiday season has arrived in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Workers used a crane and ropes to carefully lift the 75-foot-tall Norway spruce on Saturday morning at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1324518206138505\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:setting it into its place;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">setting it into its place<\/a> in front of the midtown Art Deco skyscraper overlooking the plaza&#8217;s famous ice skating rink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The tree will remain unlit until December 3, when 50,000 multicolored, energy-efficient LED lights and a Swarovski star weighing 900 pounds will be hung on the tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage from last night shows the massive tree navigating through the city lights at night on a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>A Hundred-Year-Old Tree<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 11-ton tree had taken a 150 mile journey south from East Greenbush, New York, a suburb of Albany. Homeowner Judy Russ and her family donated the tree for this year&#8217;s display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russ said the tree was planted by her husband&#8217;s great-grandparents in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Diane Bondareff\/AP Content Services for Tishman Speyer\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/806f1ebe736706d9f03c689d6df75cee.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Diane Bondareff\/AP Content Services for Tishman Speyer<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The affordable housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity will have the tree milled for lumber after the holiday season. Habitat For Humanity helped more than 3 million people build or improve their homes in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Rockefeller Christmas tree is a tradition that dates back to the Great Depression. The first tree was only twenty feet tall and adorned with homemade garlands, a gesture that was designed to raise spirits during the economic downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The towering Christmas tree that will light up Rockefeller Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9804,12729,19978,9,24,55,54,56,9011],"class_list":["post-33360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-30-rockefeller-plaza","tag-christmas-tree","tag-ice-skating-rink","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rockefeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}