From 4-5 p.m., per the sign. And don't worry — I'll have 79 more posts on the tree before the season is over...
Here are scenes from the ceremony in 2008 ... and last year .... And I made this terrible joke in 2010:
Meanwhile, this will be the last year for the tree lighting. On Jan. 3, workers will tear down the tree to make way for a new, 12-story tree. In three years, the current tree will be offered a space here, though at current market rates.
But we did almost lose the tree for real last year after Irene...
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Question for neighborhood historians...Who were the persons who got this tree planted in TSP ? I know do you ?
A local political group at the time, the Democratic Action Club, one of whose members was a man named Albert Fabozzi; the tree was planted in memory of his lover Glenn, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s.
i'm surprised the agnostic commie hippie crowd hasn't successfully lobbied to get the tree out of the park.
@anon 5:02
Bill O'Reilly, is that you?
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