By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:40 EST, 5 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:39 EST, 5 December 2013 With a flick of the switch, a 76-foot Norway Spruce from Connecticut officially became the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on Wednesday night, after it was illuminated for the first time this holiday season in a ceremony that’s been held since 1933. Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned on the lights just before 9 p.m., setting off a dazzling 45,000 mulch-colored LED lights and a 9 1/2-foot-wide Swarovski star that topped the 12-ton tree. Adam Connery, 41, and his wife Kristy Connery, 37, from Tyngsborough, Mass., watched the ceremony on their first vacation to New York City.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg lit the 2013 Rockefeller Christmas tree about 9pm Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan
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The Norway Spruce stands almost 80 feet tall, is fitted with 45,000 LED lights and weighs 12 ton
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It traveled from a home in Shelton, Connecticut, last month
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A crowd of thousands were entertainment by the likes of Mariah Carey, Jewel, Leona Lewis and The Goo Goo Dolls
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