Friday December 10, 2010

 

 

Top of the Rock – Part 1

Monday, November 29

Our Trip to NYC

 

 

The GE Building is an Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan. It is most famous for housing the headquarters of the television network NBC.

 

 

We were only on the second floor at this point. From here we were directed to an elevator to the first observation deck on the sixty-seventh floor. I think the elevator trip took something like forty-three seconds. The observation decks are on floor 67, 69, and 70.

 

 

Oh, what a view from the seventieth floor.

 

 

This is the ninth tallest building in New York City and the thirty-third tallest in the United States.

 

 

The Empire State Building as the sun was setting

 

 

The Empire State Building has an observatory on the 86th Floor, but this is considered the best view of the city because on Top of the Rock there is a view of the Empire State Building – which cannot be seen from its own observation deck.

 

 

 

 

The 67th and 69th floor observation decks were surrounded by plexiglass, the 70th floor is open viewing.

 

 

Gloria with the Empire State Building in the background

 

 

The Statue of Liberty is in New York Harbor where the East and Hudson rivers converge.

 

 

 

 

 

I was surprised to see planes so close. It felt kind of strange, knowing what happened on 9-11.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lighted area between the buildings is the screen on Times Square

 

 

Jana getting a closer look at the area. We could see the Chrysler Building, Times Square, Hudson River, East River, Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty.

 

 

I can see why this is one of the best panoramic views of Manhattan.

 

More tomorrow night