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Mayor Bill de Blasio, actors Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon
were on hand to light the 94-foot (28 meters) Norway spruce
outside the building in midtown Manhattan.
The tree is adorned with 50,000 multicolored lights, topped with
a 550 lb (250 kg), 9.5 foot (2.8 meter) wide Swarovski crystal
star.
The tree will remain on display until Jan. 7 and will then be
donated to the home building charity Habitat for Humanity, the
Rockefeller Center website said.
The Rockefeller Center tree has been a staple of Christmas in
New York City since the Great Depression, with hundreds of
thousands people visiting the tree while it is on display.
(Reporting by Julie Noce; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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