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.

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 towering conifer, donated by the Albert family in West Stockbridge was cut down Thursday morning and loaded onto a flatbed truck for the 140-mile trip. It is the first Rockefeller Center

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree began its journey to NYC after being cut down in Massachusetts on Thursday, November 7, 2024.

The 93rd year of a holiday tradition is underway in New York City where the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is now on display.

A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is en route to New York City from its tiny Massachusetts hometown

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.