#72 Rockefeller Center

Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years by Gregory Young

Jul 3, 201538:09Society & Culture

PODCAST REWIND JD Rockefeller Sr. may have earned his money is some rather unscrupulous ways, but his son Junior made good by giving midtown a towering city-within-a-city, a complex of Art Deco buildings that serves as N...

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