Video showed the 82-foot-tall Norway spruce arriving in Midtown Manhattan early Saturday morning.
The holiday season is upon us, and one sure sign of that is the arrival in New York City of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
It was set to be lifted into place by a crane later in the day, after a spike is driven into the trunk of the tree with a sledgehammer.It was cut down on Thursday, then loaded a 115-foot trailer and transported to Manhattan. The tree will be wrapped with more than 50,000 multi-colored lights and crowned with a Swarovski star ahead of a ceremonial lighting on Wednesday, November 30.ALSO READ |
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