This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree made its debut in Midtown Saturday morning.

Many New Yorkers say it’s not the holiday season until the Rockefeller tree is in town. The 11-ton, 75-foot-talll Norway Spruce will be on display for the next few weeks.

The tree was raised off its 100-foot-long trailer, suspended in midair, and a stake was hammered into its base so it could stand upright.

When lit, it will be adorned with more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and about five miles of wire. At the top, the tree will be crowned with a 9-foot, 900-pound Swarovski star covered in 3 million crystals.

The tree was cut down in East Greenbush, New York — a town outside of Albany — earlier this week.

Judy Ross, the donor of the tree, told NY1 what it’s been like to see her family’s tr

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