No, it is not a lie, one of the best times to know New York, is in Christmas. The famous fifth avenue is filled with lights in the sideboards, while the Christmas songs do not stop playing in the shopping centers, there are ice rinks everywhere and Santa claus it can surprise you in any corner. A symbol of the Christmas in ‘The big Apple’ is the tree of Rockefeller Center, a tradition that started in 1931, when United States It was trying to get out of the great economic depression, and the workers who were working on the construction of the complex brought a tree to the site and decorated it with objects from their homes.
Without a doubt, the gesture became a symbol of solidarity and gratitude, values that emerge this season. The following year there was no tree, but in 1933 It was decided to do it annually, and today it is already considered a tourist attraction. The tree is illuminated on the first Wednesday in December – in this case it will be next December 2 – and is removed on January 6. It usually comes from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut o Vermont. This year the chosen one was a Canadian fir, of almost 23 meters high, traveled to Manhattan from the town of Oneonta, in the central area of the state of New York.
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