Fir-geddaboudit! Meet the New Yorker behind the Rockefeller Center tree — who scouts 100 hopefuls across 6 states each year
But that’s exactly what Erik Pauze does at Rockefeller Center, where he’s toiled for four decades — the 58-year-old Long Islander told The Post he scouts “easily” 100 trees in a six-state radius each year, saying fir-geddaboudit! to any number of lesser specimens before determining exactly which one is ready for prime time.