Rockefeller Center
A 22-acre stretch of Midtown built straight through the Great Depression — 19 buildings you can walk in one loop.
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Fourteen original Art Deco buildings between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, split by a large sunken square and a private street, Rockefeller Plaza. The complex is noted for the art filling almost every building, an expansive underground concourse linking them, and an ice-skating rink. Named a New York City landmark in 1985 and a National Historic Landmark in 1987.
What to look for
- The large sunken central square splitting the buildings
- Radio City Music Hall along Sixth Avenue, centered on 30 Rockefeller Plaza and built for RCA and NBC
- Art in nearly every building, plus the expansive underground concourse connecting them
Runs between 48th and 51st Streets from Fifth to Sixth Avenue; come in winter for the annual Christmas tree lighting and the rink.
Rockefeller Center 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.