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.
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