X-Nico

16 unusual facts about Rockefeller Center


2010–11 New York Rangers season

On November 12, 2010, the Rangers unveiled their 85th anniversary Heritage "third" jersey at an event at Rockefeller Center.

Ann McNulty

The trio eventually appeared regularly on radio and at such venues as the Rockefeller Center's Radio City Music Hall, the Yorkville Casino, New York City’s Leitrim House and at Rockaway Beach, Queens.

Arthur Wirtz

He was also involved with the Henie-produced ice shows which played the Center Theatre at Rockefeller Center in New York for several seasons.

Cosmos 1

One of Cosmos 1's solar sail blades was displayed at the Rockefeller Center office complex in New York City in 2003.

Funky Flashman

The robot is destroyed in Rockefeller Center, leading many to believe Scott Free himself had died.

Institute for Food Safety and Health

The main building features bas relief murals created by architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie, who is best known for the Atlas statue in front of New York City’s Rockefeller Center.

J. Richardson Dilworth

Dilworth is best known for being the leading manager of Room 5600, known now as Rockefeller Family & Associates, the family office of the Rockefeller family, situated on the 54-56th floors of the GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in Rockefeller Center.

In his service for the six-generation dynastic clan, Dilworth served up until 1982 as the chair of the company that previously owned Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Center Inc. (RCI), which is now the Rockefeller Group.

Peter Linneman

He has served on several public company boards, including serving on the Executive Committee of Equity Office Properties, and was chairman of Rockefeller Center Properties, successfully negotiating the foreclosure of its previous owners and its subsequent sale in the mid 1990s.

PPL Building

The building was designed by architect and skyscraper pioneer Harvey Wiley Corbett, who would later have a hand in designing New York's Rockefeller Center, and was supervised by his assistant, Wallace Harrison, who would later design Lincoln Center, LaGuardia Airport, and the U.N. Headquarters Building.

Ranald MacDougall

He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck.

Robert Garrison

These included the three sculprural panels for the RKO Building at the Sixth Avenue entrance of Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Rory Flack

Two weeks later she skated as a pair team with her then husband in the opening of the Rockefeller Center.

Sara Haines

-- what does this mean? -->Prior to becoming a correspondent for TODAY, beginning in 2002, Haines was the Production Coordinator for NBC's Today Show at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Webster B. Todd

The firm was responsible for two projects initiated by the Rockefeller family: the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg and the construction of Rockefeller Center.

Wenlan Chia

To complement her books, Chia began to offer knitting lessons in Rockefeller Center's Anthropologie store.


Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States

Other highly symbolic deals — including the sale of famous American commercial and cultural symbols such as Columbia Records, Columbia Pictures, and the Rockefeller Center building to Japanese firms — further fanned anti-Japanese sentiment.

Boardman Robinson

Some of his mural commissions include Rockefeller Center, the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. and a nine-panel mural on the History of Trade for Kaufmann's flagship department store in Pittsburgh completed in 1929.

Carson and Lundin

Robert Carson (July 19, 1906-1960) was born in Macon, Illinois and received his architectural degree from the University of Pennsylvania before coming to New York City where he worked with Raymond Hood and was the senior architect of Rockefeller Center from 1939 until his partnership with Forsyth.

CBS Building

The NBC headquarters—the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, home of NBC News and MSNBC—is located south on Sixth Avenue at 50th Street.

Civil service of Japan

The ministry could not restrain aggressive and often politically controversial purchases by Japanese corporate investors in the United States, such as Mitsubishi Estate's October 1989 purchase of Rockefeller Center in New York City, which, along with the Sony Corporation's acquisition of Columbia Pictures several weeks earlier, heated up trade friction between the two countries.

Howdy Mr. Ice

Howdy Mr. Ice was one of a series of ice shows at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City that was produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz in the 1940s.

National Limited

These buses were then ferried across the Hudson River to Manhattan Island, where they proceeded to various "stations" including the Vanderbilt Hotel, Wanamaker's, Columbus Circle, and Rockefeller Center, as well as into Brooklyn.

Six Weeks

Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead role of Marie in The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, and sightsees most of the city.

The Lambs

When the club relocated to its current nine-story quarters at 3 West 51st Street adjacent to Rockefeller Center, it sold its own quarters to the Church of the Nazarene which intended to use the old building as a mission in Time Square.