Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 skyscrapers
It was built by the richest citizen of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., whom New York also has to thank for Rockefeller University, Fort Tryon Park with The Cloisters, and the UN headquarters, for which he donated the land. The 4ha/9.8ac plot originally belonged to Columbia University, from whom John D. Rockefeller bought it in 1928. Between 1931 and 1940, during the worst depression, 228 houses had to be torn down first so that, with its 12 buildings, the largest private business and entertainment complex in the world could be built. In 1932 the RCA Building (today GE Building) was opened. A team of seven architects was responsible for the plans, including Wallace K. Harrison, who created the United Nations Headquarters and the Lincoln Center. From 1957 a second building phase and a further five buildings followed. Alongside countless offices, which see 250,000 people enter and leave daily, the Rockefeller Center has 30 restaurants, dozens of shops on ground level and, in the underground passages, television studios, exhibition rooms and in the winter an ice rink. The generous plazas are virtually a museum featuring frescos, sculptures and reliefs. More than two dozen artists are represented with over 100 works.
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