New York City (Part 3) NY USA

The Rockefeller Plaza, complete with ice-rink

On Sunday 14 October we bought tickets to ‘The Top of the Rock’ – the top of the Rockefeller Centre.  We’d held off from buying them until we could be sure of good weather.  There’d be no point in going up the best part of 850ft and then just viewing the inside of a cloud!

Interior views of the Rockefeller Centre

The interior decoration of the Rockefeller Centre is quite remarkable, though a little too beige and shades of brown for Nicky’s taste.  The lifts (sorry, ‘sky shuttles’) on the other hand are truly impressive.  All the tickets for ‘The Top of the Rock’ are timed entry, which reduces the queuing time [Ed: though there is a queue for the almost compulsory picture against a green screen so that you too can look as if you were part of that iconic picture of 1930s construction workers eating lunch on a steel girder hundreds of feet above the city].  Each of the 4 high speed lifts takes up to 16 passengers and travels the 800-odd feet to the first observation deck in 42sec!

View north over Central Park.  The Hudson River is to the left of the picture

There are 3 observation decks at the top of the building and we spent about an hour drinking in the views from all of them.  As you can imagine, I took a LOT of photos.  What follows are the ones I think are the best….

View southeast with the Chrysler Building (1050ft), partly obscured by the MetLife Building, and the Empire State Building (1250ft) on the far right.  The East River is on the left of the picture 

Looking south with the Empire State Building (1250ft) in the middle of the frame, 1 World Trade Centre (the tallest building in the USA at 1776ft) just right of the ESB but in the distance. The Statue of Liberty is just visible slightly right of centre in the far distance and on the right, with the sloping top and the mast, is the Bank of America Tower (1200ft)

(Right) 432 Park Avenue (1396ft) 

(Top right) How to build a skyscraper – Pt 1

432 Park Avenue (1396ft, 425.5m)

(Left) Two of the tallest buildings in New York and (bottom right) that famous lady 

How to build a skyscraper – Pt 2 

Well, we had to really! 

Wow!  Just……wow!

New York, New York, USA