Radio City Music Hall: Location & Legacy

Radio City Music Hall — the "Showplace of the Nation" and home of the Rockettes — is located at:

1260 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue)
Between West 50th & West 51st Streets
Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan
New York, NY 10020

Context

• Opened: December 27, 1932 (Art Deco masterpiece by Donald Deskey / Edward Durell Stone)
• Capacity: 5,960 — largest indoor theater in the world at opening
• Part of Rockefeller Center complex (between 30 Rock & 1271 Ave of Americas)
• Subway: B/D/F/M to 47-50 Sts–Rockefeller Center; N/Q/R/W to 49 St; 1 to 50 St

Signature Events

• Christmas Spectacular (since 1933) — Rockettes' high-kick precision dance
• Tony Awards, Grammys, MTV VMAs, NFL Draft, movie premieres, concerts
• National Historic Landmark (1978)