Holland Tunnel's Christmas tree will move after public survey

‘Tis the season for a little redecoration.

The Holland Tunnel will get a slight makeover this week after a campaign complaining about the placement of the Christmas tree went viral. The tree decoration that hangs above the entrance to the tunnel on the New Jersey side will now be placed over the letter “A,” rather than its current placement over the letter “N,” Port Authority officials said Monday.

The campaign that sparked the change, which was started by TriBeCa resident Cory Windelspecht on change.org, garnered more than 2,900 signatures. The Port Authority then created a poll last week — dubbed “the great Holland Tunnel decoration debate” — crowdsourcing opinions on the decoration placement. They received 21,500 votes.

“More than 80 percent voted for change, so change there will be,” said Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority. “The winning option is to move the Christmas tree with its triangular form over to the 'A,' congruent with the 'A,' pursuant to our commuters' suggestion.”

The wreath over the letter “N” will also be taken down and placed at the Journal Square PATH station, he said.

“In this holiday period which celebrates miracles, some have actually said to us that it’s a small miracle that the Port Authority listened and has responded,” he added.

Port Authority Chairman Kevin O'Toole said the decorations will be moved at about 10 p.m. on Monday, shutting down one lane for the process.

“If there was a ladder here today, Rick and I would get up there and move that tree over to the 'A,' but as we’re told, there’s a safety concern right now,” O’Toole assures. “By tomorrow morning, no more distraction.”

But O’Toole conceded that not everyone may be happy about the changes.

“I know we’ll get complaints, it’s not symmetrical, I understand that,” he said. “But this was democracy at work here.”

Windelspecht, 38, who works in medical sales, travels through the tunnel four to five times a week. He stood outside the tunnel on Monday, happy his campaign was a successful one.

“It doesn’t fit at all right now, it’s going to be a little better. A little better is better than not better at all,” he said, joking this was his 15 minutes of fame, and that he would have to audition for reality TV to keep it going. “It just bugged me when I saw it, it made me itch, it made me angry inside. I just wanted to get up there and pull it off ... People that do notice it are going to be a lot happier, and the people that didn’t notice it before aren’t going to care.”

He also had a message for the people who he said wrote him hate tweets: “I agree with you 100 percent. It’s not news, but it’s fun, and people enjoy it and why not have some fun? It’s the holidays.”