In a bustling city like New York, no day is ever the same. The familiar favorites do, however, make a return in the holiday season.

For the 93rd time in its history, dating back to 1931, when construction workers at the Rockefeller Center site joined efforts to purchase and adorn a modest fir with handmade decorations, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree will light up the Plaza.

About this year's tree

Having come a long way since those humble beginnings, this year’s specimen is a Norway Spruce, measuring 45 feet in diameter and 75 feet in height, making it larger than a seven-story building.

Cut on November 6, the tree then traveled 130 miles from East Greenbush, NY, where it had been tended with care by the Russ family for over 60 years. In a conversation with Center Magazine, the official

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