Rockefeller Center - Buildings and Tenants

Buildings and Tenants

The landmark buildings comprise over 8,000,000 square feet (743,000 m2) on 22 acres (89,000 m2) in Midtown, bounded by Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and running from 48th Street to 51st Street. Rockefeller Center is also a private property, co-owned by Tishman-Speyer, and open to the public.

• One Rockefeller Plaza (608,000 sq ft) – originally the Time–Life Building; an original tenant was General Dynamics, for whom the building was briefly named.
• 10 Rockefeller Plaza (288,000 sq ft) – Formerly the Eastern Air Lines Building. Originally called Holland House. Today Show studios is located there.
• 30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock): GE Building (2.9 million square ft) – Formerly the RCA & RCA West Buildings
• 1240 Avenue of the Americas: One of the original buildings on the site not torn down. It has been adapted as an annex building to 30 Rock.
• 50 Rockefeller Plaza: Bank of America Building (481,000 sq ft) – Formerly the Associated Press Building

Originally built for the Associated Press, 50 Rock was the home to many news agencies. Isamu Noguchi's large, nine-ton stainless steel panel, News, holds the place of honor above the building's entrance. Noguchi's design depicts the various forms of communications used by journalists in the 1930s. The only building in the Center built out to the limits of its lot line, 50 Rock took its shape from main tenant's need for a single, undivided, loft-like newsroom as large as the lot could accommodate. At one point, four million feet of transmission wire were embedded in conduits on the building's fourth floor.

• 1230 Avenue of the Americas: Simon & Schuster Building (706,000 sq ft) – Formerly U.S. Rubber/Uniroyal. Center Theatre prior to 1954.
• 1250 Avenue of the Americas: GE Building, originally RCA Building West, officially known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
• 1260 Avenue of the Americas: Radio City Music Hall
• 1270 Avenue of the Americas (528,000 sq ft) – Originally the RKO Building, later the American Metal Climax (AMAX) Building
• 600 Fifth Avenue (409,000 sq ft) – Formerly the Sinclair Oil Building
• 610 Fifth Avenue: La Maison Francaise (130,000 sq ft)
• 620 Fifth Avenue: British Empire Building (130,600 sq ft)
• 626 Fifth Avenue: Palazzo d'Italia (120,000 sq ft)
• 630 Fifth Avenue: International Building (1.2 million square ft)
• 636 Fifth Avenue: International Building North (120,000 sq ft)

The buildings listed above, east of Sixth Avenue, are managed by Tishman-Speyer, the co-owner of Rockefeller Center. The buildings west of Sixth Avenue are managed and/or co-owned by the Japanese-owned Rockefeller Group:

• 1221 Avenue of the Americas (McGraw-Hill Building)
• 1271 Avenue of the Americas (Time-Life Building)
• 745 Seventh Avenue (Barclays Capital, formerly Lehman Brothers Building): Building now owned by Barclays Capital, the land by the Rockefeller Group.