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Mark your calendars! 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree date revealed

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and it’s not even Halloween! Mark your calendars for the arrival of this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. This year’s selection will arrive at the plaza on Nov. 7, a few weeks before the official lighting is scheduled to take place on Dec. 2 There’s still no word yet on where this year’s tree will hail from. What happens to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after it comes down? The tree goes from providing Christmas joy to providing housing. When the tree is taken down, it is laid in Rockefeller Plaza to be cut up and taken to a yard in New Jersey. There it is milled into two-by-four and two-by six beams and branded with a Rockefeller Center stamp. Tishman Speyer, the firm that owns and operates Rockefeller Center, then donates the lumber to Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps to build and improve homes across the country. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the s