Rockefeller Center or Rockefeller Plaza is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 89,000 m2 between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. It is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue and iti was built by the Rockefeller family. In 1987 it was declared a National Historic Landmark.
From the soaring views of Top of the Rock to a backstage pass at NBC Studios, every Tour at Rockefeller Center brings you inside and behind-the-scenes of some of the city’s most beloved treasures.
Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it from 1930. Rockefeller initially planned a syndicate to build an opera house for the Metropolitan Opera on the site. It was the largest private building project ever undertaken in modern times.[7]
Construction of the 14 buildings in the Art Deco style (without the original opera house proposal) began on May 17, 1930 and was completed on November 1, 1933 when he drove in the final rivet into 10 Rockefeller Plaza.
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