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There are only a few things on the checklist of a traditional Christmas in NY: Watching the tree being lit at Rockefeller. Visiting Macy's Christmas window. Ice skating at Wollman or The Plaza. Getting tickets to Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.
Radio City Music Hall is the place to spend your money for the one Christmas show that will leave you joyous for the rest of the season. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers will make you feel dizzy, Living Nativity will make you cry, and of course, the Rockettes will dazzle you to no end.
If you are not in town during the holidays, don't fret, there are always the Rockettes and perhaps an international star or two paying a visit to the Great City and the Great Hall during your time here. Leave a Comment
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Rockefeller Center is touted as city within a city and it is not an exaggeration. This Art Deco complex consists of 19 office and commercial buildings covering 11 acres in midtown Manhattan. The Rock, as it is affectionately called, also houses a maze of shops, restaurants and beautiful artworks in one form or another, with the famous Atlas and Prometheus statues gracing the façade.
The Channel Gardens are filled with flowers in the summer, and the Plaza is turned into a skating rink in the winter. Leave a Comment Directions: Rockefeller Center stretches from 47th to 51st Sts and 5th to 7th Aves. Take the B, D, F, or Q to Rockefeller Center. Or the 6 to 51st St./Lexington Ave. Or the 1 or 9 to 50th St./Broadway.Website: http://www.rockefellercenter.com/home.html
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Formely the RCA building this beautiful structure provides space for several hundred tenants which include General Electric and NBC.
As you enter the front of the building you will be greeted by some very impressive art deco that graces the entrances. Once inside the lobby you'll be once again impressed with a mural on the back wall of the security and information desk called, " American Progress", by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here you can get tour information of the Rockerfeller Center or NBC Studios too! Or if choose they have these really neat pamplets that assit you with taking a self tour of the surroundings. The gentlemen at the security desk were really cool.
Oh there is a shopping mall downstairs to with shops and restaurants too!*
Tour Times:
Rockefeller Center Tour Hours:
Mon - Sat: 10:00am - 5:00pm (depart every 60 minutes)
Sunday: 10:00am - 4:00pm (depart every 60 minutes)
TOURS DEPART EVERY HOUR FROM THE NBC EXPERIENCE STORE
RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED
Call (212) 664-7174 Leave a Comment Phone: 212-632-3975Directions: B,D,F,V Subways to 47-50th Sts. Just a couple of blocks from Times Square too! 47th-51st Streets and between 5th and 6th Avenues.Website: www.rockefellercenter.com
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The Rockefeller Center is sometimes called a 'city within the city'.
Its beautiful Art Deco Buildings are connected to each other via an underground concourse called the Catacombs - there are shops down there, but I didn't feel the pull to browse, as it is kind of dark and sterile down there, and there is much more happening above ground!
There is a sunken plaza with cafes, plus a really pretty promenade with a fountain and, when we were there, loads of tulips.
The Rockefeller Center is famous as the home of NBC Studios and also for the huge Christmas trees they have here each year.
We really enjoyed sitting in the sun here and doing some people watching. Leave a Comment
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Ok, I was so jazzed about being able to finally see the famed Rockefeller Plaza. Wow, it is beautiful and what a gem among the concrete jungle. I wished I had more time to take better pictures of it, but I was on a whirl-wind tour group headed by sister the little hurricane who lead the way.....lol! You can do a self tour and you can pick these pamplets up at the front desk in the GE Building. The security and information personel were so friendly and just awesome. Me and my sister had fun chatting up a storm with them!
Tour Times:
Rockefeller Center Tour Hours:
Mon - Sat: 10:00am - 5:00pm (depart every 60 minutes)
Sunday: 10:00am - 4:00pm (depart every 60 minutes)
TOURS DEPART EVERY HOUR FROM THE NBC EXPERIENCE STORE inside the GE Building!
RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED
Call (212) 664-7174
The center began in 1926 and was one of the most significate undertaking to intregrate art, architecture, and landscaping in the middle of a urban city to serve the needs of busy office workers.
The plaza is the very heart of the center. It is is converted into a ice skating rink during the winter months and it is where the annual Christmas tree lighting is a holiday attraction. Any other time it serves as a stunning outdoor restaurant with a full view of the Greek mythological statue "Prometheus - stealing fire from the gods as a gift to man", forged in bronze and covered in gold leaf. Leave a Comment Phone: 212-632-3975Directions: B,D,F,V Subways to 47-50th Sts, Rockefeller CenterNot sure on the busses right now. :(Website: www.rockefellercenter.com
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Another pretty cool place to see. So many times seeing this place on TV and to finally get to see it is pretty neat. Its located right among the Rockfeller Center, infact the NBC Studio store is inside the GE Building. Just ask the security information desk personel and they will point in the right direction.
They have been giving tours of the studios since 1933. Just across the street is the Today show's "Window on the World studio, NBC Experience, which includes 2½ floors of exhibit and theater space. There is a 40-seat HDTV Theater that is on the last stop on the Studio Tour, features a 130º screen spanning two floors and three custom projectors showing a continuous presentation on NBC Leave a Comment Phone: (212) 664-3700Directions: B,D,F,V Subways to 47-50th Sts, Rockefeller CenterNot sure on the busses right now. 47th-51st Streets and between 5th and 6th Avenues.Website: http://www.nbc.com
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As part of our "lets do everything in the evening as it will look more impressive" we also had to live up to the fact that it was going to be freezing! But we went well equipped with our long johns on...dont tell anyone...and enjoyed it all. The thing with this particular area in NY is that its virtually impossible to get lost, because everyone is going the same way..everyone wants to see the same things...so please dont get worried if you dont know which street you're on..just follow the person in front of you...of course, this doesnt apply if they look like a crazy axe murderer!
We had walked down from 96th Street where we were staying to 72nd Street and then caught the subway to Times Square on 42nd Street. Just around the corner, literally, on 47th Street is the Rockefeller Centre. Now Im sorry if I describe everything I see as "it was just like it is in the movies!", but it really was!!!! Places like New York are the kind of places that you feel like you've been to before you actually have! And thats why it is fun...to see places in real life! There was the ice skating rink where you had to pay a whopping $10 or more I think to go on it, and even if you brought your own skates you still had to pay a lot..Im guessing the locals dont come here! And there was a HUGE Christmas Tree all decked out and looking so pretty. So I had my obligatory photo taken here and then we moved on to our next stop...Bryant park.
I took photos of the ice rink on my non-digital camera so have yet to print those..so please come by another time and they'll be up! Leave a Comment Directions: B,D,F,V Subways to 47-50th Sts, Rockefeller Center. Not sure on the buses right now.
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Built by John D. Rockefeller Jr., Rockefeller Centre provided jobs for 225,000 during the depression, and comprised of 14 buildings by 1940. By 1973, there were 19 buildings on site. Radio City Music Hall was completed by 1932.
If you don't have time to explore the complex, at least take a look at the Promenade, othewise known as the Channel Gardens and let it lead you down to the Lower Plaza and world-famous skating rink watched over by Prometheus. There are many shops and a food court here as well. Leave a Comment
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Home to a city of office workers this place and worth a visit to see the architecture alone, there is an ice skating rink set up here from October time and it is also home to the massive Christmas Tree during the festive period.
Radio City Music Hall is part of the complex.
And there are some dam fine public toilets in the ground floor of the shopping mall, handy to know. Leave a Comment Directions: B,D,F,V Subways to 47-50th Sts, Rockefeller CenterNot sure on the busses right now. :(
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The vision of a then "young" John D. Rockefeller, the center has beautiful artwork and architecture. It is the home for NBC (television) Radio City Music Hall, and Christie's Auction house.
In addition, it also is home to the Rockefeller Plaza which has the famous ice skating rink in the winter and of course the huge Christmas tree during Christmas. Leave a Comment
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