Rockefeller Center, 5th and 6th Avenues

Photograph shows buildings of the Rockefeller Center, looking west from near 5th Avenue, New York City. Photo dated February 3, 1936. Source: Records of the Army Air Forces, National Archives at College Park, MD.

The RCA Building (now 30 Rockefeller Plaza), located between West 49th and West 50th streets, was completed in 1933. In 1986, General Electric incorporated RCA. It is one of the 14 original landmark buildings constructed by the Rockefeller family in the Rockefeller Center, an Art Deco complex of commercial buildings, situated between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The Radio City Music Hall, an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, opened in 1932.