The star attraction at New York's Rockefeller Center this Christmas will be a 76-foot (23-meter) Norway spruce from Connecticut.
Crews cut down the 10-ton tree Wednesday morning at the home of schoolteacher Maria Corti in Easton.
The spruce will be hoisted by a crane onto a trailer and transported about 50 miles (80 kilometers) to New York City. The tree will be erected at the center Thursday.
Marketing director Keith Douglas says Rockefeller Center does aerial searches for a Christmas tree and spotted Corti's spruce as a good candidate. The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is a beloved holiday classic that attracts tourists from around the world.
After Christmas, the tree will be donated to Habitat For Humanity to use as wood for a home in Connecticut.
Last year's Rockefeller Center tree was a 72-foot-tall (22-meter) Norway spruce from Hamilton, New Jersey. The owners had used it as their first Christmas tree in 1931.
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