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For me, the epitome of New York is Rockefeller Center. Maybe I'm still nostalgic from Christmas, but there is no better experience that visiting the Rock during the holidays. The skating rink is magical, it's across the street from the storied St. Patrick's Cathedral and it has "the tree."

The Rock is also cool in warmer months when ice rink is closed (but the bar is still open!).

According to wikipedia:

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York. It is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan,
spanning between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It is the largest privately held complex of its kind in the world, and an international symbol of commerce and capitalism. Rockefeller Center is a combination of two building complexes: the older Art Deco office buildings from the 1930s, and a set of four International-style towers built along the Avenue of the Americas during the 1960s and 1970s. (The Time-Life Building and the News Corporation/Fox News Channel
headquarters are part of the "newer" Rockefeller Center buildings.)

Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller Jr. ("Junior"), who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it between 1929 and 1940. Rockefeller initially planned to build an opera house for the Metropolitan
Opera Company on the site, but changed his mind after the stock market crash of
1929, and withdrawal of the Metropolitan from the project. Construction of
buildings in the Art Deco style began in 1931. Principal architect for the complex was Raymond Hood, working with a team that included a young Wallace Harrison.

It was the PR pioneer Ivy Lee, the prominent adviser to the family, who first suggested the name "Rockefeller Center" for the complex, in 1931. Junior initially didn't want the Rockefeller family name associated with the commercial project, but was persuaded on the grounds that the name would attract far more tenants.[1]

Rockefeller Center links:

Rockefeller Center [Wikipedia]

Rockefeller Center [NYC Tourist.com]
Rockefeller Center [The City Review]

Rockefellercenter.com

Rockefeller Center [The Insider.com]