He’s a real conifer-sseur.
Talent like this doesn't grow on trees. Curious about how the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree makes the cut year after year? That's the responsibility of Erik Pauze.A visit to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — dizzyingly tall, dazzlingly lit — is one of NYC’s most treasured holiday rituals.
But that’s exactly what Erik Pauze does at Rockefeller Center, where he’s toiled for four decades — the 58-year-old Long Islander told The Post he scouts “easily” 100 trees in a six-state radius each year, saying— and will be lit with the usual fanfare on Dec. 4 — is a 74-foot-tall, 11-ton Norway Spruce that is also 43 feet in diameter.Erik Pauze, the Head Gardner of Rock Center, is a homegrown talent hailing from Long Island.
He often discovers future trees — which must be judged sturdy and symmetrical enough to handle a whopping 50,000 holiday lights — in the vicinity of past chosen ones or front-runners. There was the 2021 tree, which came from Elkton, Md., that students from a nearby school gave a grand send-off by lining local streets, and the one from the little town of Florida, in New York’s Hudson Valley, where a giant American flag fluttered to honor the big gift from the small town, back in 2019.Workers lift this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from a trailer before raising it on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.
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