It is a special night for that 88-foot Norway Spruce chopped from a Ridgefield home two days after election day. The nine-ton tree will be lit tonight as the centerpiece at Rockefeller Center for all of the world to admire and capture in the four-inch screens of their new cameras.
The tree, which stood near a home off Peaceable HIll road for nearly 90 years, has gone through quite a transformation to get ready for its three-month stint in New York City. Following a journey on I-95 on a 115-foot long trailer, the evergreen was decked with 25-thousand crystals and a 550-pound star. All you have to do is jump Metro North to check it out!
If you are heading to New York for the lighting or any other time to see the holiday sights, you might want to check out www.hopstop.com. HopStop is a MapQuest of sorts for the subway and walkers. Just enter your destinations, and hopstop will tell you which subways to take as well as how to get to the stations. It will even calculate an estimated taxi fare for that distance. Before you go you can calculate whether checking out the tree and all the holiday window displays is faster on foot, by subway or cab.
If you don't have time for any of it, or just can't get near it once you are there, I found a sneak peak of some New York City holiday windows. Here is this year's Macy's display.
Here is the window display at Saks.
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