This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree revealed

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- New York's Rockefeller Center announced that this year's Christmas tree will be a 94-foot, 14-ton Norway spruce from a couple's backyard in Oneonta, N.Y.

The 2016 tree, which is slated to be cut down Nov. 10 and will arrive in midtown Manhattan two days later, will be the second-largest to have stood in Rockefeller Plaza. The tallest was 1999's 100-foot tree.

The tree, estimated to be 90 years old, is located in Oneonta, about an hour and a half northwest of New York City, in the backyard of Angie and Graig Eichle.

"The tree's always been in the backdrop, a fixture in our backyard ... and as big as it is, it kind of blends in," Angie Eichle said in the Rockefeller Center statement.

The tree will be topped with a Swarovski star on Nov. 16 and later decorated with 50,000 LED lights. NBC will broadcast the 84th Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony scheduled for Nov. 30 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.

"I for one am going to really miss cleaning the gutters out three times a year," Graig said jokingly. "We are actually curious to see how much sun we get next summer, once this 95-foot canopy is removed."

After it is removed from Rockefeller Plaza, the tree will be donated to Habitat for Humanity to be used in the construction of new homes. The first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was put up in 1931 and the first official tree lighting was held two years later.

This year's #RockCenterXMAS Tree comes from Oneonta, NY—& what a view from the top! pic.twitter.com/g0qHbkrHz5

— Rockefeller Center (@rockcenternyc) October 31, 2016