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Upstate tree headed to Rockefeller Center
November 9, 2004, 11:10 AM EST
A Rockland County tree was cut down today and is headed for New York City to become the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The Norway spruce, which is 71 feet tall and 40 feet wide, will be put on a trailer and transported to Rockefeller Center today.
The nine-ton tree is to be taken from the home of Christine Gabrielibes and Demos Kontos in Suffern.
Workers will use a 115-foot long trailer to haul the tree to midtown, where it will be erected on Thursday.
The tree will be decorated with the 30,000 lights and lit in festivities on Nov. 30.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been a city tradition since 1933.
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