{"id":45197,"date":"2025-11-19T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45197\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:05:11","slug":"when-is-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-in-nyc-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45197\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting in NYC? What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 lighting of the 75-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas tree <\/a>is set for Wednesday, Dec. 3.<\/p>\n

The event is 7 to 10 p.m. at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The \u201cChristmas in Rockefeller Center\u201d special<\/a> will air live \u00a0on NBC at 8 p.m. eastern U.S. time and stream on both NBC and Peacock, the network\u2019s website said. Country music star Reba McEntire, who can be seen on\u00a0“Happy’s Place<\/a>”\u00a0and\u00a0“The Voice<\/a>“, will host and perform on the special.<\/p>\n

Related: What you need to know about this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree<\/a><\/p>\n

NBC said other performers include musical guests Marc Anthony, Halle Bailey, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Kristin Chenoweth, Laufey, New Edition, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, and\u00a0Gwen Stefani<\/a>. The Radio City Rockettes \u2014 celebrating their 100th anniversary<\/a> this year \u2014 are also slated to perform.<\/p>\n

And what about the lights? Well, there are more than 50,000 multi-colored LED lights on about 5 miles of wire on the tree, Rockefeller Center\u2019s website said.<\/a><\/p>\n

The star topping the tree was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind in 2018. It\u2019s a\u00a0three-dimensional, Swarovski star that weighs in at about 900 pounds. It has 70 spikes covered in 3 million crystals.<\/p>\n

The tree, about 75 years old, is 45 feet in diameter and approximately 11 tons, the website said.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Christmas Tree is lit at Rockefeller Center during the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Manhattan Dec. 4, 2019.<\/p>\n

It’s a Norway spruce from East Greenbush, in New York’s Rensselaer County. <\/a>A journey of about 130 miles brought the tree to Manhattan after the tree was cut on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

The tree will be on display until mid-January.<\/p>\n

Rockefeller Christmas Tree a staple since 1933<\/p>\n

The idea of a tree at Rockefeller Center dates to 1931, <\/a>when Rockefeller Center workers pooled their money to buy a Christmas tree \u2014 a 20-foot high balsam fir with handmade garlands made by their families. In 1933, Rockefeller Center decided to make it a yearly tradition and held the first tree lighting ceremony.<\/p>\n

Other NYC holiday tree lightings<\/p>\n

Rockefeller Center\u2019s is not the only tree lighting in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

The lighting of the 45-foot Bryant Park tree , also in midtown, is set for the day before, Tuesday, Dec. 2, according to the Bryant Park website.<\/a> Festivities are scheduled to get under way at 5:30 p.m. The event <\/a>will stream online for free at wintervillage.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

World-class skaters are expected to perform: Olympian and U.S. Champion Mariah Bell, U.S. Olympic Team Members and Bronze Medalists partners Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, Canadian National Champion Kaiya Ruiter, and U.S. Olympic Team Member Emmanuel Savary,<\/p>\n

Holiday music sing-alongs and fireworks are also on tap. Actor and chef David Burtka will host the Bryant Park event.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Rockland\/Westchester Journal News: When is NYC’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting? What to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 lighting of the 75-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is set for Wednesday, Dec. 3. The event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9804,12729,3412,9,56,63,65,64,19030,12566,20055],"class_list":["post-45197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-30-rockefeller-plaza","tag-christmas-tree","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-rockefeller-center","tag-tree-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45197","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=45197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}