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Rockefeller Center's managers hired the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz to design three new towers on the west side of Sixth Avenue, with one tower on each block between 47th and 50th streets. [163] The Exxon Building, at 1251 Avenue of the Americas between 49th and 50th streets, was formally announced in August 1967. [164]
[62] [63] The main entrance of 30 Rockefeller Plaza was designed as a loggia of three arches: one at the center, measuring 37 feet (11 m) high by 14 feet (4.3 m) wide, and two on the sides, measuring 27 feet (8.2 m) high by 13 feet (4.0 m) wide.
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The windows of the other stories were replaced in the mid-1980s, and various features of the exterior were restored. [35] [92] The building's crown was not lit up between 1982 and 1988, when the building's renovation was nearly complete. [92] Meanwhile, GE had purchased 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1986 and renamed it the "GE Building" two years later.
This year’s 43-foot-wide, roughly 11-ton tree is Rockefeller Center’s first to come from Massachusetts since 1959 and was planted in 1967 by a pair of then-newlyweds, Earl and Leslie Albert.
Rides start on Dec. 1 and tickets to take photos on the beam are sold as part of a VIP pass, starting at $160, according to the Rockefeller Center website.
The ceremony begins at Rockefeller Center at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday; it will be broadcast live on NBC and streamed on Peacock as part of the two-hour “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special.
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