In this clip from NBC's live broadcast of the 83rd Annual Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, watch as Mayor Bill de Blasio, comedian Kate McKinnon and actor/famous New Yorker Alec Baldwin kick of the season by lighting the tree for the first time.
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![Rockefeller Center under construction, New York City, 1932 | Rockefeller Center rises in mid-Manhattan. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc., N.Y., 1932.
From the New York World-Telegram Collection at the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Library of Congress</a>.
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<b>[PD]</b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36071" rel="nofollow">This picture</a> is assumed to be in the public domain.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/c03f905321f5e3e383d381201f21932e/elements/11d6625c54957665b67a1a7dae87b3ad/xs/2d9e6f2e-13c0-4bcf-8139-2834c4286132_2x.jpg)
