Roller Skating Returns to Rockefeller Center, After Decades of Racist Exclusion
Roller skating returns to Rockefeller Center for the first time since 1940. For decades, roller skating bans reflected racist policies.
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Roller skating returns to Rockefeller Center for the first time since 1940. For decades, roller skating bans reflected racist policies.
Roller skating returns to Rockefeller Center for the first time since 1940. For decades, roller skating bans reflected racist policies.
This holiday season, you could become the proud owner of the world-famous Christmas tree at Tishman Speyer’s Rockefeller Center. A non-fungible token of it, at least. Tishman is auctioning off an animated illustration of this year’s tree at Rockefeller Center as an NFT, the firm said Wednesday. The minimum bid is 0.13 units of the cryptocurrency Ethereum — or just shy of $500 as of Tuesday afternoon, when the NFT was still awaiting its first
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Only the best will do when the most iconic perfume turns 100.
Only the best will do when the most iconic perfume turns 100.
This year’s ice skating season at Rockefeller Center will be cut short, and it’s not because of the pandemic. Developer Tishman Speyer, the owner of the historic Art Deco complex, is moving ahead with its long-planned renovation of the complex’s sunken plaza, which holds the rink during the holiday season, and the underground shopping concourse, the New York Times reported. The famous ice skating rink will open on Nov. 21 and end its season on
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NEW YORK — An 80-foot Norway spruce that made it through Superstorm Sandy was transformed into a beacon of shimmering glory Wednesday when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others turned its lights on at Rockefeller Center. Thousands of onlookers crowded behind barricades on the streets that surrounded the center during the traditional tree-lighting …
After surviving the high winds of Hurricane Sandy, the tree destined to grace Rockefeller Center this holiday season made its grand arrival in New York City on Wednesday. The 80-foot Norway spruce was found approximately 50 miles away from the city in Joe Balku’s backyard in Flanders, New Jersey. Balku said, “It’s a thrill of …
One of New York City’s most famous photographs turned 80 Thursday. “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper,” showing 11 workers eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 800 feet above Rockefeller Center, was taken on September 20, 1932.
Aerial photographer Alex MacLean documents the changing roofscapes of the Big Apple in a new book. See how New Yorkers take advantage of space in the sky. Forget Central Park. Some of the most plentiful outdoor space in New York City is above our heads.