# Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting: Can I Crash It? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532 "2011-10-04T05:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/1 "2011-10-04T05:30:30Z")
I want to be at this years Rockerfeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting. At the front, wherever the front is. On time. So, how do I get in? What’s the deal? Buy tickets? Online Reservations? Pull up with the ol’ Igloo? Thanks, hh ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/2 "2011-10-04T12:43:19Z")
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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/3 "2011-10-04T18:05:36Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > [http://www.nyctourist.com/xmas\_rockcenter1.htm](http://www.nyctourist.com/xmas_rockcenter1.htm) > > Looks like it’s free - you just show up and wait. I recommend you get there several hours early. And bring a sandwich. > > However, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting is rather bourgeois. If you’re looking for a good time, New York’s hottest club is _Boooooooof!_; the club that finally answers the question, “What the hell?” They’ve got everything: trannies, grannies, fannies, and Spannies. What are Spannies, you ask? It’s that thing of when you hang a midget off of a scaffold, and old Greek men throw pickles at him. > > \*^The above is a reference to a _Saturday Night Live_ sketch. That’s Boooooooo **O** f! With nine 'O’s ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/4 "2011-10-04T20:55:04Z")
I’m there! Thanks, guys! hh ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/5 "2011-10-05T01:10:15Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I recommend you get there several hours early. And bring a sandwich. You’ll need to get there at least four hours early, and enter the plaza from fifth avenue. The view from the side (47th street or 50th street) is gonna be disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/6 "2011-10-05T01:52:13Z")
Raise your hand if you came into this thread [del]hoping[/del] fearing that the OP was asking about some esoteric way of hacking into the tree decoration lighting circuits electronically, to make strategically placed lights on the tree flash **“OG SMASH!”** or **“GO RED SOX!”** or something of that sort. [raises hand] ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting-can-i-crash-it/598532/7 "2011-10-05T03:53:55Z")
I was hoping. How does one “crash” a public event, anyway?