After Manhattan’s iconic Rockefeller Center Tree goes dark this weekend, it moves on to an even loftier purpose. In early December 50-thousand LED lights came to life atop the 75-foot Norway Spruce, kicking off the holiday season and dazzling hundreds of thousands of guests from around the globe. But once those lights go out, the tree takes part in yet another special tradition. The tree is cut down and its lumber is milled in New Jersey into two-by-four and two-by-six beams, all branded with the Rockefeller Center stamp. Tishman Speyer, Rockefeller Center’s parent company, then donates the lumber to Habitat for Humanity, and those beams soon become part of Habitat family homes built everywhere from New York to Mississippi.
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