The express lanes were introduced to lubricate the heavy traffic around the annual lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight.

In December 2007, the mayor of Santiago de Surco visited for the annual lighting of the Christmas tree in the Rotary Pavilion.

Speaker Boehner and members of the Capitol community gathered for the annual lighting of the Capitol Christmas Tree last week.

With a conscious nod to Rockefeller Center, it has an indoor arcade, an outdoor ice skating rink and giant Christmas tree - some years taller than its city cousin - whose annual lighting draws thousands.

Schwarzenegger had previously ended the secular practice of calling it a "holiday tree" in 2004 during the 73rd annual lighting.

The annual lighting of the American Museum of Natural History's origami tree?

Leave it to Justin Bieber to bring a massive crowd of his Beliebers to the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Christmas tree!

The choir is invited to appear alongside actress Lily Cole for the annual lighting of the Christmas Tree at Somerset House, London (November 16, 2009)

Today the annual lighting of the tree, held after Thanksgiving, attracts thousands of visitors to the area to cram around the felled spruce, selected each year with fanfare from an unlucky upstate forest.

One of their stops included the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.