NYC Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree 2023 Installation ✨ Holidays in New York City 🌲

New York City Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Installation 2023 ✨ Holidays in New York City 🌲 (November 11, 2023) Full Installation of the NYC Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree 2023. The tree is a Norway Spruce which is 80 feet tall and 43 feet wide, weighs 12-ton. This year the tree is coming from came from Vestal, New York. The tree lighting show is set to kick off at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 29. More than 50,000 multi-colored LEDs will be strung over about 5 miles of wire to adorn the 2023 tree. It will then be crowned with a 9-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star covered in 3 million crystals. How does Rockefeller Center pick a tree? The public can nominate their own Norway spruces as long as the tree is at least 75 feet tall and 45 feet in diameter. The same man has chosen the tree for three decades. The head gardener for Rockefeller Center, Erik Pauze, scouts, nurtures, and then transports each tree, according to the Rockefeller Center Magazine.