Rockefeller Center Christmas tree unveiled: 70-year-old Norway spruce from Mass. is the ‘right one’ for 30 Rock

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The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas character was revealed connected Monday arsenic a sky-scraping Norway pine from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The character is 70 years aged and stands an unthinkable 74-feet high, Rockefeller Center said successful an announcement.

The 11-ton character is expected to beryllium trim down connected Nov. 7 earlier it travels 135 miles and reaches nan Big Apple by Nov. 9.

The yearly character lighting will return spot connected Dec. 4. William C. Lopez/NYPOST

The character was spotted 4 years agone by caput gardener for Rockefeller Center, Erik Pauze, arsenic he drove down a roadworthy while character searching.

He said successful an question and reply posted by Rockefeller Center connected Monday that he knocked connected nan character owner’s door, Earl Albert, successful July 2020 and asked if he would donate nan character for nan Big Apple festivities.

Albert quickly agreed.

“I would thrust by each truthful often to cheque successful connected nan Tree. In nan outpouring of this year, I decided to telephone Earl and inquire if I could commencement feeding it and watering it,” Pauze said.

“I came up rather often to provender nan Tree, and each clip I sewage retired of nan car, I smiled and knew it was nan correct 1 for Rockefeller Center.”

The character will beryllium lit up connected Dec. 4 and is nan first to travel from Massachusetts since 1959.

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