Visitors watch because the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is raised from a trailer on Saturday following its arrival at Rockefeller Plaza in New York.

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Visitors watch because the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is raised from a trailer on Saturday following its arrival at Rockefeller Plaza in New York.

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NEW YORK — An iconic signal of Christmas arrived in New York City on Saturday as a crane hoisted an 82-foot Norway spruce into place at Rockefeller Plaza, the place the 14-ton tree will likely be festooned with 1000’s of lights and topped with a star encrusted with hundreds of thousands of crystals.

The Christmas tree will likely be formally lit on Nov. 30.

The roughly 90-year-old tree was minimize Thursday then lifted onto a flatbed truck for its to 200-mile journey to from Queensbury, New York, to New York City.

“We gave it with the expectation that everybody would enjoy it,” mentioned Neil Lebowitz, whose household donated the tree.

Workers regular the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree as a crane lifts the donated tree into place on Saturday.

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Workers regular the 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree as a crane lifts the donated tree into place on Saturday.

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“For me, it was just a nice tree,” Lebowitz was quoted as saying by the New York Post. “Now it’s a special tree. Everybody around the world can enjoy it.”

The tree, whose decrease branches lengthen 50 ft in diameter, will likely be aglow with 50,000 multicolored lights and topped with a 900-pound star coated in 3 million crystals.

After the vacations, the tree will likely be milled into lumber for donation to Habitat for Humanity, officers mentioned.