Move Over, Halloween! Preparations For Holiday Season Already Underway

FORT LEE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- It's time to put away those pumpkins, and get ready for the holidays!

Holiday lights and garland already adorn the parking lot of a strip mall in Fort Lee, and some residents didn't seem too thrilled by the sight.

"It's a little too soon, we just took down Halloween decorations, it's a little quick," one man, named Brian, said. "It gets earlier and earlier every year."

"It's not Thanksgiving yet, that's when they should start it," another man, named Martin, said.

Another man, named Isaac, said you might as well embrace it.

"As a kid you loved it, you couldn't wait for Christmas day," he said. "So as an adult it doesn't bother me at all, as long as people are in the Christmas spirit."

Another sign of the season is the famous Rockefeller Center holiday tree, which will be cut down from a family's yard in upstate New York on Wednesday.

The 78-foot tall, 47-foot in diameter, 10-ton Norway Spruce will make its nearly two-hour journey from Gardiner to Manhattan, where it will go up at Rockefeller Center on Friday.

The 83rd Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony will take place on Dec. 2.