Rockefeller Center

The tree, a Norway Spruce, is 80 feet tall and 43 feet wide. It is over 80 years old and weighs 12 tons. Workers cut it down on Nov. 9. The tree will be set up and decorated on Nov. 11.

Many New Yorkers may not know David Hosack's name, but they wouldn't recognize their city without the public institutions he founded or influenced.