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Official opening of Christmas season in New York City traditionally starts with Rockefeller Center Tree lightening ceremony. This year it is scheduled for Wednesday, December 2, 2009. As always it will be spectacular event with performances of singers, artists and celebrities continues from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
For more than a month, until January 9th, 2010 New York City Main Christmas Tree will be on display and will be lit daily from 5:30 A.M.-11:30 P.M.; all day on Christmas (24 hours); and from 5:30 A.M.-9 P.M. on New Year's Eve.
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| Come to Rockefeller Center during the Holidays and you'll hear sounds of Christmas carols and happy shouts of kids fill the air. Visit fine Caffes and Restaurants in and around the place. Join us, New Yorkers in "Christmas Central" to get in the celebrating mood for the Holidays! |
Rockefeller Center is huge complex of nineteen buildings taking up twenty two acres. Ice Skating Rink, one of the most famous Christmas Trees in the world, and of course world renowned Radio City Music Hall are all part of this impressive establishment.
Constructed in the early 1930's, at the heart of the great depression by John D. Rockefeller, the Rockefeller Center quickly became a major New York attraction. Perfectly embodying holiday spirit, it became a symbol of the American Christmas.
Nowadays, no trip to New York during the Holiday season is complete without a visit. Guaranteed, it will whip you into the celebrating mode - regardless of how your day was. Just think about those workers who, in spite of empty pockets and the threat that they wouldn't have food for their family that night, defiantly erected the first Christmas tree in 1931.
Every year, long before the Holiday Season starts, the manager of the Rockefeller Center Gardens begin looking for the perfect tree. Sometimes Christmas Tree is shipped from as far away as Canada. The Evergreen must be between 75' and 100' tall and usually decorated with more than 30,000 lights. |
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
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Rockefeller Center Skating Rink
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Right after Thanksgiving Holiday Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lightening ceremony announcing official beginning of Holiday Season. The first tree-lighting Ceremony took place in 1933. Today, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree is the biggest, spectacular and most famous tree in USA.
Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink since it was first opened on Christmas Day, 1936 has attracted over a quarter million people a year. The Rink is open from October to April. The skating surface is 122 feet long and 59 feet wide and can accommodate only 150 skaters at one time. You mostly paying to say that you was there, than real Skating experience. Skating Rink went through renovation and was reopened in October 2006.
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Rockefeller Center Plaza is richly decorated with statues and other artwork. One of them is the striking Statue of Prometheus by Paul Manship is situated on the top of the fountain at Skating Rink. It was forged in bronze and covered in gold leaf. Prometheus, according to Greek Mythology, stole fire from the gods and gave it as a gift for mankind to bring knowledge and arts to mortals.
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Statue of Atlas is a companion piece to Prometheus and the largest sculptural work at Rockefeller Center. It is situated directly across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral. Atlas carries the heavens upon his shoulders as the punishment for defying Zeus. It was designed and produced by Lee Lawrie and Rene Chambellan in an Art Deco style.
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St Patricks Cathedral
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| Breathtaking Building decorations around Rockefeller Center is one more attraction worth mentioning. Sak's Fifth Avenue flagship store located right across of the Rockefeller Center. Christmas decor of the building is state of art lightning they changing every few years. Latest setup featuring huge snowflakes all over the building, somebody called "Dancing Snowflakes". Constant changes in brightness and Lightning pattern make it really more like a show, than just decoration. |
Radio City Music Hall
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Radio City Music Hall is part of the Rockefeller Center and one of the largest indoor theater in the world. After it's opening in 1933 more than 300 million people visited Music Hall to enjoy movies, concerts and of course Christmas Spectacular. The most famous Christmas Show of the Nation is one of the main attractions for everyone who is visiting New York during the Holidays. Radio City celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2007 and is still keeping the title of the "Showplace of the Nation". Every Year beautiful Christmas Tree with thousand of lights decorating entrance of Music Hall announcing coming Holidays and inviting everybody to experience The Christmas Show. |
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Needless to say, our unmatched collection of prints, cards, and souvenirs will transport you to this magical place 360 days a year.
Feel free to look around.
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