Skyline Of New York City From The Empire State Building & Rockefeller Center

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The view of New York City is breathtaking and I urge you to visit the Rockefeller Center for the best experience, it has a 360 degrees deck which allows you to observe every angle.

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The view of New York City is breathtaking from the Rockefeller Center and the Empire State building.

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We choose to visit both buildings since they are famous landmarks.

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Rockefeller Center NYC is a collection of 19 buildings in Midtown Manhattan that were constructed by the Rockefellers.

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These historical buildings feature a unique art-deco style not seen in many other buildings around Manhattan.

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Rockefeller Center NYC includes a couple of attractions and tours that cost money, but the art in the buildings and around them is free for people to check out.

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The Empire State Building has definitely the best views, and what keeps the nearly three million visitors coming every year, are the ones from the 86th- and 102nd-floor observatories.

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The lower one is best -- you can walk out on a windy deck and look through coin-operated viewers (bring quarters!) over what, on a clear day, can be as much as an 80-mile visible radius. The citywide panorama is magnificent.

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One surprise is the flurry of rooftop activity, an aspect of city life that thrives unnoticed from our everyday sidewalk vantage point.

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The higher observation deck is glass-enclosed and cramped.

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