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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#72 Rockefeller Center

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2008

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

JD Rockefeller Sr. may have earned his money is some rather unscrupulous ways, but his son Junior made good by giving midtown a towering city-within-a-city, a complex of Art Deco buildings that serves as New York's beating heart. We take a compact look at the complicated lineage of Rockefeller Center, from its controversial artwork to its famous Christmas tree. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0

The Bowry Boys episode 72, Rockefeller Center. Hey, it's the Bowry Boys. Hey

0:07.9

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0:11.8

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0:21.2

Hello there. Welcome to the Bowry Boys. My name is Greg Young and I'm Tom Myers.

0:25.4

Rockefeller Center is our topic today. It is so big that we're just going to get to it here.

0:31.0

Rockefeller Center makes Midtown what it is.

0:34.6

It's an office space for thousands of people, the transportation hub, and it's a center for entertainment in Midtown.

0:41.1

And it's a giant draw for tourists, of course, who come in droves, especially around the holiday season, like right now,

0:47.4

to look down at the ice skaters or up at the Christmas tree.

0:50.0

So we're going to tell you a little bit of the history, some of the people who main Rockefeller Center what it is today.

0:55.8

And we're going to take you on a little tour building by building of some of the more notable places that make up the center.

1:02.6

So join us as we grab our piece of the rock.

1:20.6

Tom, let me get us started here.

1:24.6

Yeah, we're just going to run through it.

1:26.1

We should also probably tell our listener that we're a little bit nervous about the timing on this one because we want to push through the whole story.

1:33.3

We have so much information because this is a fantastic place and it's a full robust story here.

1:41.3

And we didn't want to divide it up into two stories, two different podcasts either.

1:45.3

We want to get this all in one episode.

1:47.1

So we have a little buzzer here if either of us goes over or just we'll make a sound.

1:51.7

So if you hear something, it sounds like a like a hairdryer falling into the bathtub.

1:56.2

Well, that's just a buzzer.

1:58.4

Nice image. Thanks.

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