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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Close the Loopholes! Joint letter to City Planning Commission
In July, LW! joined preservation organizations across the city in communicating their ongoing concerns about loopholes in the Zoning Resolution that developers use to build bigger and taller than intended. Why is the city so slow to correct these issues? Read the full...
BSA Allows 200 Amsterdam Gerrymander
In today's hearing, the city Board of Standards and Appeals upheld 200 Amsterdam Avenue's building permits for a 668' building that gets its height from a gerrymandered lot that should never have been allowed. Read the full Gothamist article.
200 Amsterdam: Advocates Fight the Gerrymandered Lot…AGAIN. Go Show Your Support for Fairness in Zoning!
GO to the Hearing: Tues, June 25th, 10am Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street In March, the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on an Appeal by the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development and the Municipal Art Society alleging that the developers abused zoning...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
