Video showed the 82-foot-tall Norway spruce arriving in Midtown Manhattan early Saturday morning.
It was set to be lifted into place by a crane later in the day, after a spike is driven into the trunk of the tree with a sledgehammer.
This year's tree is from the town of Queensbury in upstate New York.
It was cut down on Thursday, then loaded a 115-foot trailer and transported to Manhattan.
The tree will be wrapped with more than 50,000 multi-colored lights and crowned with a Swarovski star ahead of a ceremonial lighting on Wednesday, November 30.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public through mid-January.
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