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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How to Game the Zoning Codes to Build Supertall Skyscrapers by James S. Russell
In CityLab, James S. Russell (with a little help from LW! Executive Director, Sean Khorsandi, who was interviewed for the article) focuses on three supertall NYC skyscrapers--including 50 West 66th Street (see Page 2 of the article below)--to reveal just how creative...
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LANDMARK WEST! has been asking #isitsafe and the FDNY has just answered: "No". Is the Dept. of Buildings listening? When LW! first learned of the bait and switch at 50 West 66th Street - from a 292-foot, 25 story building to a 775-foot, 39 story building with just 127...
Upper West Fraud?
The Upper West Side is known for many things--but fraud? Not necessarily as EXTELL's 50 West 66th Street hasn't been named yet, but read on: Our friends at THE REAL DEAL (linked, but article since removed) Published "Extell's former EB-5 regional center director says...
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Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110