Every year the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree dazzles spectators through early January, at which point its cut into pieces and toted away. But what happens to the wood once it’s removed?
The enormous tree will be cut down on November 10 and trucked from Oneonta, New York, to Manhattan, before it’s lit with all of the appropriate pomp and circumstance on November 30.
The rink opened up amid much fanfare on Christmas Day in 1936. With lights for nighttime skating, a heated changing room, along with a dining area and music, it was like nothing city denizens had ever seen before.