Backyard Spruce Chosen For Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

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NEW YORK (AP) – The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a world-wide symbol of the holidays in New York City.

This year a 94-foot Norway spruce from the northern foothills of New York's Catskill mountain range has been chosen to be the iconic Christmas tree.

The spruce hails from a backyard of Angie and Graig Eichler in Oneonta, which is a little over an hour from Albany.

The tree will be cut on November 10^th and arrive in Manhattan on November 12^th and begin a round of intensive wardrobe fittings.

The tree will be lit for the first time on Wednesday, November 30 at Rockefeller Plaza. The tree will remain lit and on display on the plaza between West 48th and 51st Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues until 9pm on January 7th.

Each year thousands crowd the sidewalks for the event and millions watch the live broadcast.

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