The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will once again light the night on Nov. 29 in Midtown Manhattan.
The 12-ton, 80-foot Norway spruce — adorned with 50,000 lights — is crowned with a star ornament that holds 3 million Swarovski crystals.
Almost lost to history, it was Italian immigrant excavation workers, on Dec. 24, 1931, who set up the first Christmas tree at the site of what would become Rockefeller Center.
Work had just begun on the oil tycoon’s 19-building development, the world’s largest private construction project ever undertaken at the time.
For the full story, see the December edition of La Nostra Voce.
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