Rockefeller Center rink and plaza
Free to visitMidtown
The rink, the gold Prometheus and, in season, the tree.
- Time there
- 30 minutes
- Best time
- Before 8am in December, or any weekday morning
- Cost
- Free to look; the rink and Top of the Rock are ticketed
- Good to know
- FAO Schwarz, whose old Fifth Avenue store was the scene of the Big piano dance, is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza now.
Filmed here
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Kevin goes to the Christmas tree to make a wish, and his mother finds him there.
Elf (2003)
Jovie shows Buddy the tree, they skate on the rink and he gets his first kiss by the Prometheus statue.
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