when do they light the christmas tree in NYC?
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11/29/2006, I gather. seems like that is what they are saying in this page.
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Try the local volunteer fire departments.  They ususally sell Xmas trees as a fund raiser and they are exceptionally fresh ... they don't want to visit you home to extinguish a tree that caught fire!
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Everyone who said December 21 is wrong.\n\nSunset for NY NY is 4:28 for December 3 through 12.  Before and after, it is later by at least one minute.  Somebody might know where to get it for the exact second, but I don't know where to access that data.  But obviously, it would be some day between the 3rd and 12th.\n\nUse the link below, and click on "Data Services":
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December 24th, 0000 at 11:59:59 PM\n\nHA!
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this year it will start after sunday night ( march 5 )\nit was supposed to start friday the 3rd but didnt
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Real tree -- Two weeks before Christmas and out the door January 2nd or you are going to have needles everywhere.\n\nArtificial -- Anytime after Thanksgiving until the 2nd week of January.
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December 19 2006\nJust in time for Christmas
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chanukah starts on December 15- first night- candle light with sundown around 4:30.\nlast night of chanukah is sat, December 23rd.
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5th December!\n3rd Janaury!
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drum rolllllll\n\nDaylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April.
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Girl please I already got mine! I get one everyday on Thanksgiving and it's pretty much dead by the time Christmas rolls around. It's a tall tree ehh I'd say about 8 feet tall? And 6 feet wide or so. A pretty picture to look at, let me tell you. I can't wait to decorate it. The smell of it shall fill up the whole house with the smell of Christmas in the air. All we need now is some cold weather down here in Florida and it'd be the perfect Christmas! And it's only November 24!
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Just make you house christmas like and light a fire and have the christmas tree lights on and enjoy. Or go around driving at night and look at the lights.
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At night, well when it is dark, in the winter, fully lit by candles. Not sure of a location though, but I do know it would not be in a church. Maybe a big log cabin or something on those lines.
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My neighborhood goes beserk with lights, so I love taking the kids around to look at them. It's family time that's full of wonder and the celebration of light in the darkest time of the year - all that Yule is to me.
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It varies but on the shortest day - 21st December - it'll be at around 4.30pm xx
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There hasn't been a date set yet.  Here is the IKEA Brooklyn official site if you want to keep track of it.\n\nhttp://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/IkeaNearYouView?storeId=12&langId=-1&catalogId=10103&StoreName=brooklyn
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Thanksgiving weekend is the time we put up our tree! we ned atleast 2 1/2 days to get tehj job done right. I am particular!!!!\nIt's an artificial 7 1/2 ft  Mountain King. We always get visitors claiming that it won't last until Christmas because it looks so real!\nIt has individual branches to insert and shape separately and stands about 7 ft wide at the bottom. I have over 600 ornaments from antique to current Hallmark, including blown glass, and lots of hand crafted ones.  We also have complete sets like the Lenox Carousel set and some older Hallmark Club designs.  Oldest is a very plain glass, oval shaped bulb. It's about 75 years old and was my grandmother's.  We use over 500 of them each year. The lights I use are the larger C5 and I use about 75-85 of these,  very carefully spaced and proportioned for color.  I add about 5 or 6 'twinkle' lights to give a soft  twinkling background effect and it works very nicely. You have to go light with these or it starts to look like a store front ! We add candy canes to be given to the younger visitors and they all go by time the tree is ready for it's rest. I also use and love our blown glass icicles and hang them off the very ends of specific branches to give a more majestic effect to the tree. I have a colorful tree skirt with a horse drawn sleigh to cover the base. \nI recently added a few bubble lights to give it some additional life.\nIt gets to be more fun with each passing year and as my two girls lend a hand and share laughs. \nMan, do I live for this!!!  Have a Merry Christmas!!!!