Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives in NYC

A 78-foot Norway spruce from Ulster County has been installed at Rockefeller Center for the Christmas season. “It’s been in the family for years”, added Puchalski of Asendorf’s family.

The tree will remain in Rockefeller Center until January 7.

Nancy Puchalski, his longtime partner, said the family will definitely miss the tree.

“My father loved the tree and trimmed it so it would look straight”, Asendorf, now 62, said.

“We’re always been in and out of it. Got hollered for the sap all over our clothes”, said Asendorf’s son, Sean, whose own child, Sean Jr., remembers it fondly.

It was landed outside Rockefeller Center in the morning hours of Friday before being hoisted outside the front doors of the Comcast Building.

“It was very exciting even it we’re a little sad to see it go”, said Puchalski as she watched workers cut the ropes that were put on numerous tree’s branches to make the 47-feet wide spruce smaller for its transportation.

Tens of thousands will crowd the sidewalks for the event, and hundreds of millions of people will watch the event live across the globe. “We’re so happy we made it”, said Kiehling’s daughter, Maria Brees.

It will be illuminated by as many as 45,000 multi-colored LED lights, with the Swarovski Star on top, for the first time on December 2 in a ceremony that has been held since the year of 1933.