NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- The 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was revealed Tuesday—and it hails from right here in New York.
The Norway Spruce is from Queensbury, about an hour north of Albany. It's being donated by the Lebowitz Family of nearby Glens Falls.
The stunning spruce stands at 82 feet tall, weighs 14 tons and is 85 to 90 years old, according to an announcement from Rockefeller Center.
The tree will be felled in the coming days and then make the 200-mile journey by truck to Manhattan, where it will be adorned with more than 50,000 multi-colored LED lights strung on five miles of wire.
The evergreen will be topped with a 9-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. The star features 70 spikes and 3 million glimmering crystals.
This year's annual tree lighting ceremony will take place on Nov. 30 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Rockefeller Plaza.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to stop by the tree each day in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
The spruce will stay up until mid-January. It will then be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.
The 30 Rock tree is a nearly 100-year-old tradition. It started back in 1931, when construction workers building Rockefeller Center put up a Christmas tree. The first formal tree lighting ceremony was held two years later in 1933.
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