{"id":172,"date":"2005-03-11T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/rockefeller_center_observation_deck_to_reopen.html"},"modified":"2005-03-11T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:43:50","slug":"rockefeller_cen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/rockefeller_cen.html","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller Center Observation Deck to Reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The observation deck on the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/11\/nyregion\/11rock.html\">will be reopened to the public for the first time since 1986<\/a>. Although it&#8217;s not as high up as the Empire State Building, one of its draws will be advance ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>Empire State Building officials sounded unconcerned:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Empire State Building observation deck, 200 feet higher and $1 cheaper, drew about 3.5 million visitors last year. Lydia A. Ruth, the director of public relations for the building, welcomed the prospect of a reopened observation roof at Rockefeller Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a great place to view the Empire State Building,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite its admission fee ($14), it should be fun to go up there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Never as heavily trafficked as the Empire State observatory, the Rockefeller Center rooftop felt more like a sanctuary than a tourist attraction. Its lower elevation also gave visitors the appealing sense of being suspended among the pinnacles of the skyline, rather than above them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reopening appears to be slated for the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The observation deck on the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza will be reopened to the public for the first time since 1986. Although it&#8217;s not as high up as the Empire State Building, one of its draws will be advance ticket sales. Empire State Building officials sounded unconcerned: The Empire State Building observation deck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}