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Librairie de France was a famous French bookstore at Rockefeller Center in New York City . The store, located at 610 Fifth Avenue on Rockefeller Center Promenade, was opened in 1935 by Isaac Molho, [1] though the company itself was founded in 1928. [2] Molho had studied in Athens at a French school and come to the United States in 1928, but ...
The "Prometheus Fountain," with its attendant restaurants, ice skating rink (winter), has become one of the most visited and photographed places in New York City, and certainly Rockefeller Center's most photographed, especially around Christmas time with the lighting of its Christmas Tree. [12] The statue is 18 ft (5.5 m) tall and weighs 8 tons ...
1251 Avenue of the Americas. 1251 Avenue of the Americas (formerly known as the Exxon Building) is a skyscraper on Sixth Avenue (also known as Avenue of the Americas), between 49th and 50th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is owned by Mitsui Fudosan.
Designated NYCL. April 23, 1985. The British Empire Building, also known by its address 620 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial building at Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Completed in 1933, the six-story structure was designed in the Art Deco style by Raymond Hood, Rockefeller Center's lead architect.
April 23, 1985. La Maison Francaise (French: La Maison Française, literally French House), also known by its address 610 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial building at Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Completed in 1933, the six-story structure was designed in the Art Deco style by Raymond Hood, Rockefeller ...
Also within the plaza is an entrance to the New York City Subway's 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station, serving the B, D, F, <F>, and M trains. [ 46 ] In 1972, the Association for a Better New York hired William Crovello to create a sculpture at the building called Cubed Curve , [ 47 ] [ 48 ] measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and 12 ...
Albertine Books is a bookstore in Manhattan, New York. Opened in 2014, it offers the largest collection in the United States of French-language books and translations from French into English. [1][2] It is located in the Payne Whitney House at 972 Fifth Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets. In addition to its bookstore and reading room ...
The Adirondack Mountains (/ ˌædɪˈrɒndæk / AD-i-RON-dak) [1] are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles (260 km) wide and covering about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2). [2] The region contains more than 100 peaks, including Mount Marcy, which is the highest point in New York at ...