NEW YORK (AP) - It’s beginning to look - and feel - a bit like Christmas in Manhattan.
A couple of hundred adults and kids - many bundled in coats, hats, gloves and scarves - gathered in a 40-degree chill Saturday morning to watch workers putting up the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The 94-foot Norway spruce was cut down Thursday in upstate Oneonta (oh-nee-AHN’-tuh) and made a 140-mile truck trip.
It originally was in the backyard of Angie and Graig Eichler (EYE’-kluhr). They were among the onlookers as it was being raised with a crane.
Angie Eichler says their family has come almost every year to see the Rockefeller Center tree - but she never dreamed it would be theirs.
The tree’s 50,000 lights will be switched on during a Nov. 30 television broadcast.
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