Overview
- The Russ family donated the roughly 75-year-old evergreen from their East Greenbush, N.Y., property after head gardener Erik Pauze deemed it “perfect.”
- Crews will cut the tree on Nov. 6 and truck it 130 miles to Midtown for a public “Meet the Tree Day” arrival on Nov. 8.
- The display will be lit during NBC’s live “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” broadcast on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
- Decor will include more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights strung across five miles of wire and a nine-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star with about 3 million crystals.
- The spruce will remain on view through mid-January 2026 before being milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity, with new ticketed Top of the Rock viewing offered Dec. 4–Jan. 10.