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Visit the Rockefeller Center in New York HD - Travel Guide

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World Tube https://www.youtube.com/user/World1Tube Travel Guide New York http://bit.ly/15impdW Join Shepherd Entertainment on a tour to the Rockefeller Center and it surrounding buildings in New York. Perhaps, the oldest seasoned hotel of the city is the Chelsea. Among its first guests were Mark Twain and his fellow writer, the chronicler of his hometown, O. Henry. The stars of the Barnum Circus also stayed here as well as the grand actress, Sarah Bernard. One of the most respected actors of our age, Dustin Hoffman, lived here for years, just as Arthur Miller who wrote his play entitled "Death of a Salesman" here. Visitors included Laurence Olivie, Janice Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe. Arthur C. Clark wrote several of his science fiction works here. The poet Dylan Thomas and writer Thomas Wolfe died here at the Chelsea. Rockefeller Sanders, the largest connected skyscraper city of the world with a total of 21buildings. It is located in the heart of Manhattan between fifth and sixth Avenues. The lower Rockefeller Plaza decorated with the flags of the United Nation member-states is the center of the building complex. The skating rink is used by thousands of tourists and locals from autumn to spring. While in summer, specialties of English and French restaurants can be enjoyed in sunshine or under paracels. The gilded Prometheus statue dominates the square. At the beginning of 19th century, the area was the permanent residence of notable families with Palaces of the Asters and the Vanderbilts adorning the neighborhood. A hundred years later, the locations of lost in value due to the since demolished high railway which caused too much noise for the millionaires. During the era of prohibition, secret bars were opened in rundown houses in the area. Finally, the son of Oil-millionaire Rockefeller rented the site of which they have the largest opera house of the world built; but, due to the great depression, he abandoned the area and started a more lucrative business. He commissioned the architect Wallace K. Harrison to plan a building complex consisting of several office buildings. Rockefeller Sanders is still the largest privately-owned office and entertainment center in the world where 35,000 people are working with the visitor's member many times at. The Catholic Church finished in 1879 bears the name of Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick. One of the largest churches of New York looks small next to the skyscrapers, Rockefeller Center and the Olympic Airways building. The headquarters of RCA, the largest radio and television producer is in one of the buildings of the Rockefeller Center. On the other side of the block is the famous radio city music hall built in the 1930's. The hall has a sitting capacity of 6,200 and the audience is entertained by artists and symphony orchestra and dance ensemble. This is followed by a film premiere in the second part of the program. We're walking on the heart of the big apple to the south from central park and a bit farther south from the Rockefeller center, one corner away from the famous Times' Square. This area is famous for its theaters among others for the Saint James, the Eugene O'Neal, the Biltmore, the Edison, the Majestic, the Playhouse, the Helen Hayes, the Palace, the Royal, and the Ambassador theaters. The world renowned Carnegie Hall is also nearby where Chikosky conducted the orchestra at its opening ceremony. During the more than hundred years since then, Toscanini, Stravinsky, Rubenstein, Stokowski, Morowitz, Menoen, and Bernstein have conducted here and the jazz performances have included such names as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basy, and—. the old concert hall has been threatened several times of demolition; but, the world's greatest musicians have always managed to collect enough money with their occasional concerts to be able to prevent this the New York state theater, the Phil Harmonic Hall and the new Metropolitan Opera House are located in Lincoln Center in the same destitute area where the gangs of Westside Story fought for life and death. 188 old buildings were destroyed to make room for this new giant planned by the architect of the Kennedy airport, the UN palace and the Rockefeller Center, Wallace K. Harrison. The metropolitan opera with 3,800 seats opened its doors in the spring of 1966. Its monumental 112-foot high entrance colonnade is decorated by murals by Mark Segal.