Tree from devastated New Jersey heading to Rock Center

Posted November 13, 2012

An 80-foot-tall Norway Spruce, selected to be the 2012 Christmas tree at New York’s Rockefeller Center, is raised by a crane above spectators after being cut down at the home of Joseph Balku in Flanders, N.J., Nov. 13.

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