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Nov 12, 2009 12:49 pm US/Eastern

Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree Set Into Place

NEW YORK (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: A 76-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree is raised by workers in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center on November 12, 2009 in New York City. The tree, which is from Easton, Connecticut, will be officially unveiled in a lighting ceremony on December 2nd.
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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: A 76-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree is raised by workers in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center on November 12, 2009 in New York City. The tree, which is from Easton, Connecticut, will be officially unveiled in a lighting ceremony on December 2nd.
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New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is almost ready for the holidays.

The 76-foot Norway spruce was hoisted into place Thursday morning near the famous skating rink in mid-Manhattan.

The next step is to decorate it with 30,000 lights.

The lighting ceremony will be Dec. 2.

Crews cut down the 10-ton tree Wednesday at the Easton, Conn. home of fifth-grade teacher Maria Corti.

The first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up in 1931 by workers building the complex during the Depression. The first official tree lighting there was in 1933.

Last year's tree, also a Norway spruce, came from Hamilton, N.J.

The decorated holiday tree remains lit at Rockefeller Center until the week after New Year's Day, when it is removed and recycled for a variety of uses.