Overview
- Crews craned the 11-ton tree into position at 30 Rockefeller Plaza after a roughly 150-mile trip from the Albany suburbs.
- The spruce measures 75 feet tall and about 45 feet across after growing for roughly 75 years outside the Russ family home in East Greenbush.
- Rockefeller Center plans to adorn it with more than 50,000 lights and a Swarovski crystal star ahead of the Dec. 3 televised lighting.
- Donor Judy Russ said the selection fulfills a family hope and honors her late husband, Dan, as she and her son, Liam, plan to attend the ceremony.
- Organizers say the display will run through mid-January 2026 before the tree is milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.