Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree’s arrival kicks off holiday season in New York

Workers try to stabilise the Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree while it is lifted by a crane into place at Rockefeller Plaza (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)

The Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree has been hoisted aloft at its new home in Manhattan, marking the start of New York City’s holiday season.

This year’s tree is a 75ft-tall Norway spruce from the town of East Greenbush, a suburb of Albany.