30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock)
The 850-foot Art Deco slab that gave the NBC sitcom "30 Rock" its name.
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The centerpiece tower of Rockefeller Center, completed in 1933 and the third tallest building in the world when it opened. Its Top of the Rock observation deck puts you above Midtown Manhattan, and the building still holds NBC's New York studios and headquarters.
What to look for
- The limestone facade with a granite base and roughly 6,000 windows separated by aluminum spandrels
- The Top of the Rock observation deck, which opened in the mid-1930s
- The Rainbow Room restaurant
The main entrance is on Rockefeller Plaza, a private pedestrian street running parallel to Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock) is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.