Overview
- Crews hoisted the 75-foot, 11-ton Norway spruce into place at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Nov. 8 after its roughly 150-mile trip from East Greenbush, New York.
- Judy Russ and her 7-year-old son, Liam, watched the installation in tribute to her late husband, Dan, whose family cared for the tree for decades.
- Rockefeller Center head gardener Erik Pauze selected the spruce and accompanied its delivery to Manhattan.
- Decoration is underway with more than 50,000 energy-efficient LED lights and a 9-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star ahead of a Dec. 3 lighting broadcast on NBC and Peacock hosted by Reba McEntire.
- The display runs through mid-January 2026, after which the tree will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.