It’s the most wonder-fir time of the year!

This year’s massive — and New York-born — Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is slated to put down its roots in the Manhattan square Saturday, fulfilling a family’s longtime dream of sharing its magnificence with the world.

Judy Russ says the donation is an ode to her late husband Dan, who cherished the tree on their Rensselaer County farmland for years before he tragically died in 2020 at just 32 years old.

“As my husband has passed away, I know he would have loved to have been here for this moment,” Russ told NBC correspondent Joe Fryer on “Today” Friday.

“We always talked about it being the (Rockefeller Center) tree. It’s so special that my family’s tree gets to be America’s, if not the world’s, Christmas tree.”

Russ made it her mission

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