Travels in the 2nd half

Some people feel that Christmas in New York City begins with the Thanksgiving Day Parade. To me, the real start of the Christmas season is the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Everything else just marks the end of fall. Rockefeller Center is the Art Deco office complex that takes up four square blocks in the center of Manhattan. It was built in the 1930’s and spans the area from 48 th street to 51 st street between 5 th and 6 th Avenues. They were built in the early 1930’s and are some of the most stately and gorgeous buildings in the New York. No expense was spared. There are fourteen buildings, each with a different theme and set of decorations. At the center are 30 Rockefeller Center, home to NBC broadcasting, and the skating rink, built below ground level, complete with a golden statue of Prometheus rising. In 1931, workers helping to build Rockefeller Center put up a Christmas tress on December 24 th . They decorated it, along with...