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    "headline": "Rockefeller Center’s 2026 Christmas tree is a 76-foot Norway spruce from West Edmeston, New York",
    "description": "The roughly 75-year-old, 11-ton tree arrives in Manhattan on November 7 and will be lit on December 2 under a 900-pound star. Key dates and how it compares.",
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    "articleBody": "A 76-foot Norway spruce from West Edmeston, a small community in upstate New York, is due on the plaza at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, November 7, to become the 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. It gets its lights on Wednesday, December 2. Rockefeller Center confirmed the species, height and hometown on its own holiday page. Further details released with the reveal fill in the rest: the spruce is roughly 75 years old, about 50 feet wide and close to 11 tons, and it was donated by Rebecca Decker. The 2026 tree in numbers Species: Norway spruce Height: 76 feet, or about 23 meters Age: about 75 years Width: about 50 feet across Weight: roughly 11 tons Home: West Edmeston, New York Lights: more than 50,000 multicolored LEDs on about five miles of wire, under a 900-pound Swarovski star Erik Pauze, the complex’s head gardener, picked it, as he has for more than three decades. He tends to choose spruces that have hit full height and are outgrowing the yards they stand in, and the species is favored because its stiff branches can carry heavy strings of lights. How it compares This year’s spruce is a foot taller than the 75-foot tree from East Greenbush, New York, that stood on the plaza in 2025, and it matches that tree’s roughly 11-ton weight. It is also 3.8 times the height of the first tree: a 20-foot balsam fir that construction workers bought with pooled cash in December 1931 and raised on Christmas Eve. Divide 76 by 20 and you get 3.8. The record still belongs to 1999, when a 100-foot spruce came from Killingworth, Connecticut. Trucks can haul taller trees, but the narrow streets around the plaza cap the size at about 100 feet, so the 2026 tree sits at 76 percent of that practical ceiling. Visitor guide: key dates for the 2026 season Thursday, November 5: the spruce was scheduled to be cut down in West Edmeston and loaded for the trip south. Saturday, November 7: arrival in Midtown Manhattan and Meet the Tree Day, back for a second year, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Entry is free and first come, first served, with paid expedited entry bundled with an observation deck ticket. Planned activities include a holiday workshop, character meet-and-greets, photo spots and crafts. November into December: a crane lifts the tree into place, crews put up scaffolding and the lights and star go on. Wednesday, December 2, 7 to 10 p.m.: the lighting ceremony, broadcast live in the US on the network’s annual “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special. In recent years the switch has been flipped just before 10 p.m. Eastern. December 25: the tree stays lit for 24 hours. December 31: lit from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. January 9, 2027: the last day on display, according to details released with the reveal; Rockefeller Center’s own page says mid-January. The tree stands on Center Plaza between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 49th and 50th Streets. Seeing it from the public areas costs nothing; the rink below it is already open for the season. Where the wood goes next When the season ends, the spruce will be milled, treated and turned into lumber for Habitat for Humanity homes, a practice that dates back to 2007, the same year the tree switched to LED lighting. Before any of that, it has a date with a crowd: Wednesday, December 2, when those 50,000 bulbs come on for the first time. Further reading Wikipedia: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Image: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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