#Rockefeller Center in New York City

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Lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center in New York City

© Thorney Lieberman

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree draws throngs of people to Midtown each year to celebrate the holidays. The tradition started in the 1930s, when construction workers at Rockefeller Center pooled their money to buy a tree. Officials at Rockefeller Center later formalized the event, especially today’s lighting ceremony, which will be attended by thousands of onlookers. Each year’s tree is selected by the head gardener at Rockefeller Center and topped with a huge star adorned with Swarovski crystals. This year, the tree introduces a new star designed by architect Daniel Libeskind—it weighs 900 pounds, is more than 9 feet in diameter, and features 70 spikes and three million crystals outfitted with LED lights to emit rays in all directions. In January, the tree is milled, and the lumber donated to Habitat for Humanity. We think Santa would approve.

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Radio City 📻🗽 NYC

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ROCKEFELLER CENTER CHRISTMAS TREE - NYC

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, New York City at night.

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Atlas, Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York City: Atlas is a bronze statue by Lee Lawrie, in Rockefeller Center, within the International Building's courtyard, in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is across Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick's Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens on his shoulders. Wikipedia

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Rockefeller Center, NYC | Kelly Kopp

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omg Kuchipatchi fell ice skating at Rockefeller Center!! ⛸️⛸️

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Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center - Midtown Manhattan, New York City by Andreas Komodromos

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This is most of Lee Lawrie's 'The Story of Mankind' at Rockefeller Center in New York City. This is a photostitch of 12 closer photos I took in October of 2023. That's why it looks a little wonky around the flagpoles The full size of the stitch was 167MB [!!]. Completed in 1937.

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new york city on the coldest day of the year

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Christmas in New York 🎄🎅 Rockefeller Center

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The maintenance crew cleaning one of the two big chandeliers in the foyer of Radio City Music Hall, April 16, 1953. The job started at midnight and took eight hours to finish.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP

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NYC 1989

I returned to New York City in 1989 and almost immediately found a job for myself there, photographing the artwork for a record my friend Jane Bunnett had recorded with jazz pianist Don Pullen. (My first record cover, I think.) I had tentatively tried my hand at street photography when I visited the city for the first time, four years earlier, but this job turned out to be a shakedown cruise for the Rolleiflex I'd recently purchased - a camera that would be basically my main portrait camera for the following decade. My then-girlfriend had just moved to the city for college so I had a place to stay, and I set out every day with a brief to collect photos that evoked NYC for the package of Jane's CD, which would be called New York Duets.

Over two trips to New York City in late summer and fall of 1989 I busied myself with taking shots of the city for my friend Jane's CD artwork, wandering through the Village where I was staying, north to Rockefeller Center and south to Wall Street, trying to find evocative shots that said "Manhattan!" without hitting the old cliches too hard. Those old cliches were hard to avoid in any case; I stayed away from Central Park, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings and the Statue of Liberty, but I still couldn't avoid other, just as obvious shots - the art deco friezes at Rockefeller Centre, fire escapes, graffiti, the Stock Exchange and the twin towers at the World Trade Center - the only photos I ever took of those iconic and tragically long-gone buildings, at sunset down at the end of West Broadway.

My New York City photos for my friend Jane Bunnett's record ended up doing the job: a shot from Rockefeller Center ended up on the cover, a few more made it on the inside and back cover of the booklet, and along the way I ended up with some photos I still like today. One shot in particular, of a group of men playing cards at the chess tables in Washington Square Park, has become a historical document; you don't see men dressed this way today, or faces like this. Most of the men in the photo are probably dead by now. I still find myself trying to take quintessential photos whenever I'm back in NYC today, but I'm old enough now that I don't care if I aim squarely for those iconic postcard shots, mostly because on the way between taking them you might find yourself finding something less obvious.

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ROCKEFELLER CENTER- NYC

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Two men smoke on top of the RCA Building (Rockefeller Center) construction in 1932.

Unknown photographer