30 Rockefeller Center - LANDMARK WEST

Current Status: Completed

30 Rockefeller Center Vital Stats

Address: 1250 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 (Community Board 5)

Type: Mixed Commercial and Residential

Name: Comcast Building; 30 Rockefeller Plaza; 30 Rock; The Slab; GE Building; RCA Building

Construction: Begun 1931; Completed 1933

Design Architect: Raymond Hood

Executive Architect: _

Developer: The Rockefeller Group

Builder: _

Height: 850 feet (259 meters); 70 stories

Total Construction Floor Area: 2,099,985 square feet; 195,095 square meters

Site Area: 107,766 square feet; 10,012 square meters

Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.

Superlatives: Built as a symbol of American resilience during the Great Depression.

Loopholes Exploited:

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Voters Against Supertalls

Jun 22, 2017 | #votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List

New Yorkers from neighborhoods across the city came together on Thursday, June 22, 2017, for a Save New York Summit to discuss City policies that have enabled and incentivized the trend of supertall development, now threatening traditional residential neighborhoods...

SAVE NEW YORK SUMMIT, Thursday, June 22, 6pm

Jun 15, 2017 | #votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List

The scale of New York is being drastically changed - not just in Midtown Manhattan, but in neighborhoods throughout the city. The tide of "supertall" towers beginning to rise in residential areas, including those surrounding Central Park, is symptomatic of the...

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