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The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
In 1932, Ebbets was appointed the photographic director for the Rockefeller Center's development. On September 20, 1932, he took the photo Lunch atop a Skyscraper, which depicts eleven men sitting on a girder eating lunch, their feet dangling from the beams hundreds of feet above the New York streets. [12]
The construction of Rockefeller Center occurred between 1932 and 1940 [b] on land that John D. Rockefeller Jr. leased from Columbia University. [ 204 ] [ 205 ] The Rockefeller Center site was originally supposed to be occupied by a new opera house for the Metropolitan Opera . [ 206 ]
The construction of Rockefeller Center occurred between 1932 and 1940 [a] on land that John D. Rockefeller Jr. leased from Columbia University. [65] [66] The Rockefeller Center site was originally supposed to be occupied by a new opera house for the Metropolitan Opera. [67]
Rides start 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. Visitors ride the “Top of the Rock: The ...
In 1686, much of Manhattan, including the future Rockefeller Center site, was established as a "common land" of the city of New York. [1] The land remained in city ownership until 1801, when the physician David Hosack, a member of the New York elite, purchased a parcel of land in what is now Midtown for $5,000, [2] equivalent to $92,000 in 2023 dollars. [3]
Built in 1932 for the renowned American muralist Ezra Winter, this 8,000-square-foot house/studio in Northwestern Connecticut is the housing equivalent of Suzanne Sommers -- it is simply age-defying.
One of Manhattan's most storied apartments has hit the market: the former residence of Nelson Rockefeller, who served as Gerald Ford's vice president from 1974 to 1977. Built in 1926, the co-op is ...