Fifth Avenue — Rockefeller Center to Park Avenue · 12 stops
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Fifth Avenue — Rockefeller Center to Park Avenue
Midtown, New York
12 stops · ~16 min
About 40 min walk · 12 stories · Free
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Start: Rockefeller Plaza — —
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The walk starts at Rockefeller Plaza. Please use headphones and keep audio private.
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- Start anywhere in the park. For the full route, begin at Rockefeller Plaza. Directions
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Twelve stories from the Rockefeller Center tree to Citicorp Center — Lunch atop a Skyscraper, MoMA, Saint Thomas Church, Lever House and Marilyn's subway grate.
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Stops
1
The First Christmas Tree
A builders' tree in the Depression
2
The Channel Gardens
A garden between France and Britain
3
Wisdom and the Lost Mural
A golden compass, a destroyed fresco
4
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Eleven men, one girder, 850 feet up
5
Noguchi's News
Ten tons of steel for the press
6
The Museum of Modern Art
Three friends, six rooms, one crash
7
Saint Thomas Church
The church that refused to move
8
Lever House
The glass box that changed Park Avenue
9
Racquet and Tennis Club
A palazzo built for an ancient game
10
The General Electric Building
A skyscraper crowned with radio waves
11
Marilyn's Subway Grate
The night a white dress stopped Lexington
12
Citicorp Center
The skyscraper repaired in secret
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