The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has arrived in New York City, signaling the start of the holiday season in the Big Apple.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is officially on its way to NYC! The 74-foot-tall Norway Spruce was cut down on Nov. 7, 2024, from its home in West Stockbridge, Mass. The tree,

WEST STOCKBRIDGE - The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is on its way to New York City after being cut down in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Thursday.

The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be cut down from West Stockbridge on Nov. 7 before it travels roughly 140 miles to Manhattan. It will arrive in the plaza on Saturday, Nov. 9, and be hoisted into place.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrived in midtown overnight – marking the 93rd year of the city’s most beloved tradition. The 74-foot, 11-ton Norway Spruce was trucked in from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The tree is about 70 years old, and is the first Rockefeller Center tree from Massachusetts since 1959.

The tree will be decorated over the next few weeks with more than 50,000 multi-colored LED lights and crowned with a Swarovski star before the tree lighting ceremony.

He’s a real conifer-sseur. A visit to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — dizzyingly tall, dazzlingly lit — is one of NYC’s most treasured holiday rituals. And behind every sky-high stunner chopped down and brought into the Big Apple to make spirits bright at Christmastime stands just one man with an eye for perfection — most likely one of the only people toiling away in Midtown’s concrete jungle at the job of Head Gardener.