This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a Norway spruce from New York state

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Here it is: The 2019 #RockefellerCenter Christmas Tree The Norway spruce hails from the Village of Florida in Orange County, NY. ⁣ ⁣ Each year, Rockefeller Center receives submissions from families in hopes their tree will bring joy to the millions who visit Rockefeller Plaza during the holiday season. We usually select a Norway spruce that is later on in its life cycle, and plant a young one in its place. Once the holidays have passed, the tree is donated to Habitat for Humanity, where it is recycled and used as lumber in their building projects.⁣ ⁣ The tree will be raised on the plaza on Saturday 11/9—mark your calendars!

Last weekend, unbelievably, the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center officially re-opened; and now, the tree that will adorn Manhattan during this holiday season has already been chosen—a clear sign that we are nearing Christmas season in NYC.

As in other years, Rockefeller Center has chosen a Norway Spruce, but this time it will come from the village of Florida, located in Orange County near the New York/New Jersey border.

It will be cut on November 7 and will get to 30 Rockefeller Plaza on November 9. It will be wrapped with 50,000 multi-colored LED lights and topped with a Swarovski star before its official debut and lighting ceremony on Wednesday, December 4. It will remain at the plaza—between West 48th and 51st streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues—until January 17, 2020.

The tree lighting ceremony is part of a more than 80-year tradition: The first tree, a 20-foot balsam fir, was put up by Rockefeller Center construction workers in December 1931.