A Norway spruce from upstate New York has been selected to be the 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The announcement was made Monday, ten days before the tree will be cut down and transported nearly 200 miles to its new home in New York City. This year’s tree hails from a property in West Edmeston, Ostego County. Crews are expected to cut down the tree on Nov. 5 and then drive the bare Norway spruce to its new home two days later on Nov. 7. The tree will be placed upright at Rockefeller Plaza, where it’ll spend weeks getting adorned with tens of thousands of lights and the iconic Swarovski star. Eager fans anticipating the annual tree lighting need only wait until Dec. 2, when the official “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” live show helps ring in the holiday season. This year’s tree will be on display until Jan. 9. The 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree hails from West Edmeston, New York. What happens to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after it comes down? The tree goes from providing Christmas joy to providing housing. When the tree is taken down, it is laid in Rockefeller Plaza to be cut up and taken to a yard in New Jersey. There it is milled into two-by-four and two-by six beams and branded with a Rockefeller Center stamp. Tishman Speyer, the firm that owns and operates Rockefeller Center, then donates the lumber to Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps to build and improve homes across the country.   ...read more read less