Shirley Figueroa, a retired public servant, grew up in Mott Haven in the Bronx with “no trees on my block.”

But last year, Ms. Figueroa, 49, and her wife bought a home in Wallkill, N.Y., an hour and a half north of the city.

The home came with a towering Norway spruce that a Rockefeller Center scout had already spotted. (Every year, the center gets its tree from a different place. Last year’s came from someone’s yard in State College, Pa.)

And so Ms. Figueroa’s 72-foot tree will be lit tonight in a ceremony that starts at 7 o’clock.

“Just the fact that I have a tree that I can donate when I came from somewhere that had no trees — it’s so surreal,” Ms. Figueroa said.

Also noteworthy: This is the first tree in Rockefeller Center’s history to be donated by a same-sex or Latina couple, a Rockefeller Center spokeswoman said. Ms. Figueroa and her wife are Puerto Rican.