Notes, Credits, Index, In Gratitude

A note from the author

As a journalist I learned that story assignments, like rough gemstones, come in all shapes and dimensions and with care and cutting a few will dazzle; most will not. And then there are the stories that even as notions shout their promise and dance on a thousand well-turned legs. The Time & Life Building has long ranked as one of the city’s gems. Its reinvention from top to bottom to tenant roster as a state-of-the-art tower gave me reason to dig into a building and an office development I’ve reveled in since childhood. Rockefeller Center has long loomed as a favorite destination for me for ice skating with friends, staring slack-jawed at the Christmas tree, strolling among the summer blossoms in the Channel Gardens, and enjoying an occasional five-piece chicken tenders in the concourse McDonald’s.

I began my journey with this volume in a conference room two buildings down Sixth Avenue from 1271, where the owners, Rockefeller Group, had gathered cartons of news clippings, press releases, photos, slides, and letters. Amid all that, periodically I ran across something else, stray pages from a manuscript by Floyd Miller, a freelancer tasked with producing a book much like this one to commemorate the opening of the Time & Life tower in 1960. The book went unpublished. Its fate haunted me over my nearly two years of occasional labor. But working with the spirited, razor-sharp staff of Rockefeller Group in an effort orchestrated by Communications Chief Dwayne Doherty, the process ground onward. It also included interviews with RG execs ranging from the current CEO and his predecessor, Daniel Moore and Dan Rashin, respectively, to my final interview with the duo of Shawn O’Neill and Ron Perez, the heads of security and engineering operations, respectively. Over the last year, I have been fortunate to work with Beth Sutinis, who has led the book-crafting team, a person whose email handle, totalb, testifies to her protean talents: among them the assembly of a team of graphic designers, photo researchers, and more, which ropes in several former Time Inc.-ers.

As 60-something-year-old edifices go, 1271 has more stories to tell than most. Many have fed into the very political and cultural fabric of America. For anyone interested in going deeper into the story, Daniel Okrent’s Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center stands out as a superb starting point. In the hands of this erstwhile Time Inc. editor, the complex’s rich creation story soars, swirls, delights, and transfixes us. Once we cross to the once forbidden western shore of Sixth Avenue in the late 1950s to focus on the nascent Time & Life Building, the first tower to rise there under the Rockefeller Center flag, the trail branches off. We leave behind the builder–developer Rockefellers—Junior, Nelson, and Laurance —to stride through the front door of an empire built by the son of Christian missionaries in China, Time Inc. cofounder Henry Luce.

Credit for giving us one of the best treatments of the building’s design, must go to a New York City public servant, Matt Postal of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. His marvelously illustrated and annotated report on 1271’s lobby as a (successful) candidate for landmarking in 2002, makes a series of cases that go from the persuasive to the compelling as he assays the place from its unusual plum-colored glass ceiling to its wavy paving inspired by Brazil’s Copacabana Beach.

For the flavor of what went on upstairs on the Time floors for a half-century, I spent many an hour with the company’s in-house weekly newsletter, FYI.

Work on this book took me into three of the city’s oldest libraries: the main branch of the New York Public Library eight blocks south of 1271; the city’s second-oldest (at 200 years), The General Society Library at The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York, four blocks south; plus, the elegant one tucked away in the New-York Historical Society just over a mile north, which is the new home of the Time Inc. Archives.

1271 has enjoyed a rich life in a city that has shaped more psyches, more careers than any other in America. That power famously drew Henry Luce to New York in the first place and persuaded generations of his successors to stick with the city through its dangerous, as well as its more salubrious, moments. It is also why John D. Rockefeller chose to move here from Cleveland early on in his imperial life right through to the townhouse he built on West 54th Street. In that sense, the tower’s symbiotic relationship with the city whose bedrock its steel legs first pricked in 1958, endures as 1271’s greatest strength.

—Erik Ipsen

Photo credits

Thank you to the following photographers, photo agencies, archives, and individuals for granting permission to reproduce the photographs and artworks in this book.

The photographs on these pages ©Albert Vecerka/Esto: 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6–7, 8–9, 10–11, 16–17, 18–19, 20, 21 (bottom right), 22–23, 60–61, 98, 122–123, 124–125, 129, 130, 131 (bottom right), 133, 134, 135 (top, bottom right, bottom middle), 139 (top left, top right), 140 (bottom right), 141, 146–147, 148–149, 152–153, 155, 157, 160

The photographs on these pages ©2020 Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 15 (top right), 38–39, 48–49 (left), 58, 62–63, 64-65, 66–67, 68, 69 (bottom left), 70, 71, 72–73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 (top left, top right), 80–81, 83, 84 (left), 86 (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right), 87 (top, bottom right), 88-89, 90–91, 99 (bottom), 102, 103 (top right), 104 (top), 107, 127 (bottom), 128, 138, 144, 154, 159; Frederick Charles for Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 21 (top right); Kevin Chu/Jessica Paul for Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 12-13 (right), 15 (bottom right), 126, 127 (top) 132 (right), 142-143, 145 (right); Jessica Frankl for Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 12 (left); Howard Watler for Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 14-15 (left)

The photographs on these pages ©2020 Rockefeller Center Archives/ Rockefeller Group International, Inc.: 34-35, 42-43 (right), 44 (top left), 45, 51 (right), 52-53, 54 (top left), 57, 69 (top left), 82 (bottom left)

Part I Pages 24–25: Library of Congress, page 25: bottom: Museum of the City of New York; page 26: bottom left: Historia/Shutterstock; pages 26–27: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden; page 28: Getty Images; page 29: Glasshouse Images/Shutterstock; page 30: left: New York Historical Society/Getty Images; page 31: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images; pages 32–33: Glasshouse Images/Shutterstock; page 36: left: PhotoQuest/Getty Images, right: Courtesy of Rockefeller Archive Center; page 37: top: Bettmann/Getty Images, bottom: Museum of the City of New York; pages 40–41: New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images; page 42: New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images; page 44: right: Associated Press, bottom left: Associated Press; pages 46–47: MCNY/Gottscho–Schleisner/Getty Images; page 49: right: Bettmann/Getty Images; pages 50–51: left: Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images; page 54: top right: Underwood Archives/Getty Images, bottom right: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images; page 55: William Sumits/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 56: Bettmann/Getty Images; page 59: top left: Anthony Camerano/Associated Press, top right: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Premium Collection/Getty Images, bottom right: AP/Shutterstock

Part II Page 69: right: Jerry Cooke/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; page 79: bottom: Walter Daran/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; page 82: top: Andreas Feininger/ The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom right: The Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY; pages 84–85: right: Richard H. Althoff/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; page 86: Rockefeller and Luce: Walter Daran/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images, page 87: Marilyn Monroe: Bettmann/Getty Images; pages 92-93: left: Andreas Feininger/ The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, right: Margaret Norton/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 94: top: Margaret Norton/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom: Herman Miller Archives; page 95: left: Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images, top right: Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom right: Herman Miller Archives; pages 96–97: left: Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, top right: Margaret Norton/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom right: Andreas Feininger/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 99: top: Margaret Norton/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; pages 100–101: left: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/ Getty Images, right: Tony Triolo / Sports Illustrated/Getty Images; page 103: Ambassador John Hay Whitney: Mark Kauffman/Life Magazine/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, International Rice Research Institute: Courtesy of Rockefeller Archive Center, Petrol pump: Terry Disney/ Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Members of the press and American Petroleum Institute: Cloyd Teter/The Denver Post/Getty Images; page 104: bottom: Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 105: Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 106: Skyview Survey; page 108: CBS/Getty Images; page 109: CBS/Getty Images; pages 110–111: left: Bettmann/Getty Images, right: Bill Stahl Jr./NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images; pages 112–113: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images; page 114: Time Eisenhower Cover: Time ©2020 Time USA LLC. All rights reserved. Used under license., Portrait of Henry R. Luce and Hedley W. Donovan: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, LIFE cover: Ralph Morse/The LIFE Premium Collection/ Getty Images, Sports Illustrated cover: J. Frederick Smith/Sports Illustrated/ Contour RA/Getty Images; page 115: LIFE Century of Change cover: Little, Brown and Company, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky: J. Walter Green/ Associated Press, Time Nixon cover: Time ©2020 Time USA LLC. All rights reserved. Used under license., Richard Stolley: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, Movie poster: Everett Collection, Inc./ Alamy Stock Photo, Time Inc. Reception Center: Charles Bonnay/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; page 116: Sports Illustrated cover: Walter Iooss Jr./Contour RA/Getty Images, Sidd Finch: Lane Stewart/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images, The Sopranos cast: Photofest; page 117: Martha Stewart: Deborah Feingold/Corbis/Getty Images, Ted Turner and Gerald Levin: Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press, Tower Suite Restaurant: George Nelson Estate/Vitra Design Museum, Time Warner office: Chris Hondros/Newsmakers/Getty Images; page 118: Mad Men cast: Erik Pendzich/Alamy Stock Photo, Time Inc. sign: Drew Angerer/ Getty Images, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Photofest; page 119: Frank Deford: Lane Stewart/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images, John Steinbeck: Bettmann/Getty Images, William Faulkner and Eddie Arcaro: Bettmann/Getty Images, Sophia Loren and Alfred Eisenstaedt: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, Calvin Trillin and Birmingham Freedom Riders: Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images, Alfred Eisenstaedt: Dan Cronin/NY Daily News Archive/ Getty Images; page 120: top left: Yale Daily News, top right: Wikimedia, bottom: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; page 121: top left: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, top right: Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom right: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, bottom left: Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Part III Page 131: bottom left: Jack Brennan/ Brennan Photo; page 132: left: Judy Glina/Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; page 135: bottom left: Chris Jend/Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; page 136: Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos; page 137: Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos; page 139: center left: Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos, center right: Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos, bottom right: MLB Photos; page 140: left: Ken Smith Workshop; page 145: left: Turner Construction; page 150: Balsley Park: Courtesy SWA/Balsley, Carnegie Hall: James Leynse/Corbis/ Getty Images, Central Park: Getty Images, New York Hilton Midtown: Eloi Omella/Getty Images, Museum of Modern Art: Ted Thai/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, 30 Rockefeller Plaza/NBC Studios: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images, Rockefeller Skating Rink: Spencer Platt/Getty Images, New York Public Library: Victor Fraile/Corbis/Getty Images, Pennsylvania Station: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/ Getty Images, Times Square: George Clerk/Getty Images, Studio 54/Roundabout Theatre Company: Studio 54/ Roundabout Theatre Company; page 151: Bloomingdale’s: Peter Kramer/ Getty Images, Central Synagogue: John Lamparski/Getty Images, Grand Central Terminal: Getty Images, The United Nations: Tetra Images/Getty Images; page 156: Katherine Bourbeau

Bibliography Author’s acknowledgments

Brinkley, Alan. The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. New York: Vintage, 2011.

FYI, Time Inc.’s weekly internal newsletter. New York,1957–1992.

Landmarks Preservation Commission. Time & Life Building, Ground Floor Interior Designation Report. LP-2119. Prepared by Matthew A. Postal. New York: City of New York, 2002.

Newhouse, Victoria. Wallace K. Harrison, Architect. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

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Wainwright, Loudon. The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life. New York: Ballantine, 1988. Erik Ipsen wishes to thank: Bill Hooper, archivist, Time Inc. Archives, who knows volumes about the company, its longtime home, and its publications, and where to search for everything else.

Erin Weinman, manuscripts reference librarian, New-York Historical Society, who provided guidance, reassurance, and cartons of files dating back decades.

The staff of the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, New York Public Library, who helped with the early stages of my research, going back to the original owners of the site—the Lenape people—and much else.

Nancy Ellwood, freelance editor, who helped get this book off the starting blocks.

Dwayne Doherty and Howard Watler, who squirreled away cartons containing decades’ worth of Rockefeller Group’s detailed press releases, speech copies, slides, etchings, and more, and provided hands-on guidance and occasional working space throughout the process.

Christine Roussel, archivist, Rockefeller Center Archives, who contributed documents and perspective.

Malena Rogers, librarian, General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York, whose warm welcome and calm guidance helped renew my confidence in this effort.

Carol and Augustus Ipsen, my wife and son, for their patience, understanding, sound advice, occasional comic relief, and not-infrequent outdoor adventures.

Index

50th Street, 91, 131, 132, 135, 140 51st Street, 34–35, 78–79, 140 1271 Avenue of the Americas

See also Time & Life Building; specific topics decisions to make, 124–130 designing history, 131–133 future, 153

Major League Baseball, 127, 132, 136, 139, 148 as opportunity of lifetime, 12–21 tenant map, 138 transformation, 145–149 updates, 134–135

ABC TV’s headquarters, 109 AIG, 136 Albers, Josef, 83 American Cyanamid, 88 American Morning, 117 American Petroleum Institute, 88, 101, 103 Arcaro, Eddie, 119 Architectural Forum, 39, 107 Art Deco, 48–49, 55 Artwork

Atlas, 44–45, 58

Caslon 471, 84

News, 54, 55

Portals, 6–7 (image), 83

Progress, 54, 55

Relational Painting #88, 80–81 (image), 83, 135, 157 (image)

Story of Mankind, The, 53 Associated Architects, 39, 43, 59 Associated Press Building, 54, 55 Atlas, 44–45, 58 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), 32–33, 34–35, 49, 112, 124, 131, 145

Beame, Abe, 111 Berman, Jay, 132, 140 Bessemer Trust, 136, 148 Billings, John S., 121 “Black Rock,” 107, 108–109 Blank Rome, 127, 136 Bloomberg, Mayor, 145 Bojsza, Katherine, 132, 140 Bourke-White, Margaret, 120, 121 Bower, Dan, 131, 132, 140 Brennan, Francis, 84 Brody, Jerome, 104 Brownell, Marie, 88

C

Cable News Network (CNN), 117, 145 Caslon 471, 84 Castro, Fidel, 148 CBS headquarters, 107, 108–109 Central Park, 30 Chairs, 95, 115 Chambellan, Rene Paul, 44, 53 Channel Gardens, 44, 84, 140 Clinton Foundation, 148 Columbia College, 26, 34, 37 Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, 24–25, 26 Copacabana paving, 80, 132, 134, 140, 155 Crab crane, 143, 145 C-SPAN, 117 Cubicles, 76, 77, 86 “Curious Case of Sidd Finch, The” (Plimpton), 116 Curtain wall, 76, 79, 127, 128, 132, 142, 145 Custom Shop Shirtmakers, 104

D

Daily News, 111 Dakota apartments, 30 Deford, Frank, 119 Dickey, James, 119 Didion, Joan, 119 Disney, 112–113 Donahue & Coe, 88 Dunne, John Gregory, 119

E

Eames, Charles, 94, 95, 104, 115 Eames, Ray, 94, 95 Eames Executive Chair, 95, 115 Edwards, Bill, 136 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 121 Eisenstaedt, Alfred, 119 Elevated railway, 33, 49, 62 Elgin Botanic Garden, 26, 44 Empire State Building, 43 Equitable Life Assurance Building, 108, 109 Exxon Building, 107 Eyssell, G. S., 64, 69

F

Fabricant, Florence, 117 Faulkner, William, 119 Federal Hall, 25 Ferriss, Hugh, 62–63 Field of Beans, 139 Fifth Avenue, 28, 30–31, 33 Fischer, Bobby, 115 Flynn, Michael, 132 Forbes, 56 Ford, Gerald, 59, 111 Fortune, 84, 88, 114, 120 FYI, 119

G

Gilded Age, 28–29, 32–33 Girard, Alexander, 104 Glarner, Fritz, 80, 82, 83, 135 Glaser, Milton, 112 Great Depression, 37, 43 Greenhill, 136 Greenpeace, 117 Guiltinan, Edward J., 136

H

Hadden, Briton, 114, 120, 121 Harris, Michael M., 69, 107 Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 69, 107, 131 Harrison, Wallace K. (Wally), 36, 39, 59, 69 Heiskell, Andrew, 107 Hemisphere Club, 103, 104 Herman Miller, Inc., 95 Home Box Office (HBO), 107, 115, 116 Hood, Raymond, 69 Hosack, David, 26–27, 44 Hughes, John, 28

I

Ice-skating rinks, 30, 50–51 International Rice Research Institute, 103

J

Jend, Christopher, 132, 140 João, Maria, 116

K

Kahlo, Frida, 44 Kemp, James S., 26 Ken Smith Workshop, 131, 140 Kennedy, John F., 99, 121

L

La Fonda del Sol, 104, 105 La Guardia, Mayor Fiorello, 56, 62 Landmarks Preservation Commission, 80, 132 Larsen, Roy E., 68 Latham & Watkins, 127, 136, 148 Lawrie, Lee, 44–45, 53, 54, 55 Leadership in Energy and

Environmental Design (LEED), 148 Lehman Brothers, 104 Lenin, Vladimir, 44 Lewis, John, 119 Life, 94, 97, 107, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120–121 Loading docks, 52 Longwell, Daniel, 121 Loren, Sophia, 119 Luce, Clare Boothe, 120, 121 Luce, Henry III (Hank), 68, 95 Luce, Henry R. biography, 120–121

Eames furniture, 95

Kennedy, John F. and, 99

Time, 114

Time & Life Building, 12, 62–63, 68, 76, 79, 86

M

MacArthur, Douglas, 121 Mad Men, 118 Major League Baseball, 127, 132, 136, 139, 148 Man to the Moon, 115 Manhattan attractions map, 150–151

Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, 24–25, 26 Manship, Paul, 46–47 Manufacturers Trust, 104 Maps

Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, 24–25, 26

Manhattan attractions, 150–151 tenant, 102–103, 138 Martha Stewart Living, 117 McGraw-Hill, 107, 111 McKim, Mead & White, 69 McPhee, John, 119 Meredith Corporation, 118 Metropolitan Opera House, 34 Mitsubishi Estate, 127 Mizuho Americas, 127, 136, 139 Modular offices, 76, 77, 86 Money, 115 Monroe, Marilyn, 73, 87 Moore, Daniel, 127, 128 Morris, Benjamin W., 34 Mumford, Lewis, 52 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 36, 37, 58, 59

N

New York City Board of Education, 69 New York Hilton, 109 New York Observer, 118 New York Times, 64–65, 80, 84, 115, 118 New Yorker, 52 Newhouse, Victoria, 69 News, 54, 55 Nixon, Richard, 115, 121 Noguchi, Isamu, 54, 55 Nolan, Michael, 140

O

O’Neill, Shawn, 148

Pei Cobb Freed, 128, 131, 132, 140 People, 100–101, 115 Perez, Ron, 148 Plimpton, George, 116, 118 Portals, 6–7 (image), 83 Progress, 54, 55 Prometheus, 44, 46–47, 140 Pullen, Weston C., Jr., 69

Radio City Music Hall, 43, 48–49, 148–149 Ramp system, 52 Rashin, Dan, 21, 127 RCA Building, 42–43, 44, 56–57, 59 Reed Roller Bit, 101 Reinhard, L. Andrew, 69 Relational Painting #88, 80–81 (image), 83, 135, 157 (image) Restaurant Associates, 104 Rivera, Diego, 44, 120 Rockefeller, Abigail Greene Aldrich, 36, 59 Rockefeller, David, 36, 59 Rockefeller, John D., 36, 59 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 36, 37, 39, 56, 59 Rockefeller, John D. III, 59 Rockefeller, Laurance, 59, 64, 73, 79, 86 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 36, 56, 58–59, 62–63, 68, 69 Rockefeller, Winthrop, 59 Rockefeller Center, 38–56, 59, 107, 131, 151, 159. See also 1271 Avenue of the

Americas; Time & Life Building; specific buildings Rockefeller Center Monthly, 58 Rockefeller Center Skating Rink, 50–51 Rockefeller Foundation, 101, 103 Rockefeller Group, 107, 116, 127, 131, 136, 140, 148 Rock-Time Inc., 69, 109, 116 Rogin, Gilbert, 101 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 59, 121 Rudeen, Ken, 101 Russell Stover, 104

S

Saarinen, Eero, 95 Safire, William, 115 Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The, 118 Shaw, W. David, 64–65 Shell Oil, 101, 103 Sheraton, Mimi, 119 Sidewalk Superintendent’s Club, 58–59, 72–73 Sixth Avenue, 32–33, 34–35, 49, 112, 124, 131, 145 Smith, Ken, 140 Solon, Léon V., 54, 55 Sopranos, The, 116 Spassky, Boris, 115 Sports Illustrated, 88, 101, 114, 116, 119, 136 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 28–29, 34 Standard Oil Company, 36 Steinbeck, John, 119 Stern, Robert A. M., 107 Stock market crash of 1929, 36 Stolley, Dick, 100–101, 115 Story of Mankind, The, 53 Subway, 51, 84, 132, 135, 151 Swimsuit Issue, 114, 115

T

Tate, Mike, 142 Tenant maps, 102–103, 138 Tiegs, Cheryl, 115 Time, 59, 112, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121 Time & Life Building. See also 1271

Avenue of the Americas architectural features, 80–85 auditorium, 98–99 chairs, 95, 115 construction, 58, 59, 62–79 first six decades, 88–101 modernist model, 62–68 stats and facts, 86–87 tenant map, 102–103 visitors, famous, 119 Time Inc. See also Time & Life Building expansion, 107

newspaper, in-house, 119 office environment, 76, 77, 94, 95, 96–97 office history, 54, 88, 104, 127, 136, 148, 151 timeline, 114–118 Time Warner, 117, 118 Time-Life Exhibition Center, 115 Time-Life Lobby Chair, 95, 115 Times Square, 110–111, 112–113 Topping-out tree, 74, 87 Tower Suite, 104, 117, 128 Trillin, Calvin, 119 Truman, Harry, 121 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., 117 Turner Construction Company, 145

U

United Nations Headquarters, 36, 69 U.S. Rubber Company Building, 56

Sunlit Rockefeller Center with rooftop gardens in foreground, color illustration, 1932, John Wenrich

W

Wall Street, 36 Walnut Stools, 94 Walt Disney Company, 112–113 Warner Communications, 117 Washington, George, 25 Wenrich, John, 38–39, 159 Whitney, Charlie, 145 Whitney, John Hay, 101, 103 Whitney Communications, 101, 103 World Chess Championship, 115

X

In gratitude

Rockefeller Group would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of our employees, former employees, partners and collaborators, who played important roles in the planning, construction, marketing, and leasing of the new 1271, and without whom the building’s redevelopment would not have been such a meaningful success.

Rockefeller Group Employees Keith Abbott, Heath Abramsohn, Melinda Achaibor, Rajeev Aggarwal, Nicole Albano, Tonya Ampey, Michael Anderson, Amy Ankeles, Keiji Aoe, Fred Arenstein, Ayumi Asami, Sarah Ashcroft, Keva Auguste, Linda Aybar, George Balanos, Anthony Balzano, Roland Banishta, Sara Barca, Michael Barone, Rosemary Bates, Anthony Battiato, Peter Becker, Alexander Belenkiy, Marc Berg, Cassandra Blackwell, Papa Blankson, Gerald Blume, Daniel Bower, Sandy Brennan, Meg Brod, Keith Browne, Geraldine Bullock, Marco Bulzomi, John Buquicchio, Josh Burton, Rodney Burton, James Camp, Tony Cantor, Joseph Caputo, Dianne Cardoso, Jacqueline Carlomagno, Mark Hilton Carpenter, Wendy Castro, Alice Chang, Alyssa Chrysafis, TC Chung, Marie Cisse, Oswaldo Coello, Billy Coleman, Mikki Columbus, Polia Comella, Chris Crump, Miguel Cruz, Zachary Csik, Deborah Cummings, Santo Curro, Gisele de Chabert, Paulina DeLuca, Frank DeNigris, Ronald DeTommaso, Dwayne Doherty, John Domeneck, Michelle Dougherty, Raymond Dowie, Kurt Drstvensek, Patrick Duffy, Donna Easterling, Bill Edwards, Emmanuel Egoegonwa, Reda Elalfy, George Eley II, Ayman Elgebaly, Donna Emma, Diwel Encarnacion, Michael Eng, Todd Estes, Michael Estrella, Vincent Eulo, Dana Fallek, Sameh Fanous, Timothy Fantauzzi, John Fernandes, Luis Fernandez, Dominick Figueroa, Scott Flanagan, Tim Flynn, Nicola Folkes, Richard Forfa, Eric Franco, Mark Fratto, Monica Galarza, Tawnya Gallagher, Richard Garbarino, Luis Garcia, Ulysses Garcia, Foday Gassama, Sequoia Gates, Alexis Genao, Jonathan Gerardo, Michael Ghelechkhani, Frank Giangrande, Patricia Glorioso, Tomoya Godai, Hilary Allard Goldfarb, Joanne Golminiak, Phillip Golub, Carlos Gomez, Anthony Gorman, Fern Grant, Frank Greco, Robert Green, Eddie Griffin, Michael Gunn, Susan Gurnett, Orlando Gutierrez, Charles Haber, James Halloran, Jack Hamilton, Brandi Hanback, Judy Hansen, Raven Haynes, Monique Henley, Jason Heras, Jerry Hom, Charles Hoover, Andrew Hunte, Christopher Hunter, Laura Imperato, Masanori Iwase, David Jakubowski, Dennis James, Ralph James, Orwin John, Hitomi Kakuda, Kentaro Kan, Alix Kaylin, Jeffrey Kim, Barry Kittrell, Peter Kolinsky, Bah Kouadio, Tarik Kouchtaf, Mihaj Kracun, Roman Kravchik, Satoko Kuo, William Kurtin, Zivan Kurtin, Joshua Kuskin, Wisdom Kwofie, Aziz Lagraid, David Lamar, Vivek Laungani, William Lavin, Michael Lee, Mon Lee, Olivia Lee, Robert Lee, Alexander Lemons, Katie Lenss, Michael Leondi, Nicholas Leung, Paula Leung, Rachel Levovitz, Alexander Li, Alexis Liastro, Christopher Lindquist, Ralston Lisle, Marlon Llavore, Michael Lomax, Carmine Macchia, Brian Mahoney, Cesar Maldonado, Ryan Malin, Andrew Maloney, Manny Martinez, Tetsuya Masuda (Board of Directors), Otis McElveen, Steven McGee, Colleen McGovern, Melissa Medina, Samantha Meekins, Lisa Melenyzer, Maria Melfi, Steven Mitchell, Daniel Moore, Stokes Moore, John Moreno, Winston Morgan, Tania Mottaleb, Albert Moultrie, Liam Murtagh, Zaneifa Mycoosingh, Bindu Nair, Yoshinori Nakamura, Tamara Neville, Eileen Novosel, Maria Nuzzo, Shawn O’Neill, Nina Obaseki, Katsuyuki Okada (Board of Directors), Stanley Onaghise, Christian Oquendo, Awilda Ortiz, Sukru Ozakdogan, Junichi Ozawa, Freddie Page, Sam Pallotta, Tasha Palmer, Virginia Pantoja, Eleni Papadopoullos, Terry Sung Park, Christopher Pellegrino, Jesse Pena, Luis Peralta, Ronald Perez, Nicholas Perich, Rameshwar Persaud, John Petricola, Jaime Phinizy, Robert Piazza, John Pierce, Melanie Pinilla-Jones, Audrey Postal, Samuel Pough, Lewis Quijano, Daniel Raffadeen, Tajpaul Rambali, Denise Ramdawah, Jade Ramos, Paul Rankin, David Rattner, Serg Ratu, Sangeeta Reddy, Keith Remolino, Augustine Repetto, Hallie Rifkin, Steven Rizzo, Heivy Roa, Todd Robinson, Tyrone Robinson, Jorge Rodriguez, Thomas Rose, Michael Sajjadi, Robert Sala, Nicholas Salemme, Ian Salmon, Michael Salz, Monifa Samad, John Santana, Sompagnimdi Sawadogo, Laura Searle, Eric Selbst, Mark Shearer, Janet Shillitani, Kyle Shouldice, Tara Silbiger, Mark Singerman, Jacqueline Singh, William Sluk, Mark Smith, Suzanne Smith, Rick Sondik, Jennifer Stein, Richard Stevens, Nicholas Stilo, Luckana Stone, Brian Strope, Shanta Sugrim, Brian Sullivan, Mariusz Szczepaniak, Michael Tate, Brandon Valentin, Christine Vanacore, Jacqueline Vargas, Robin Vasquez, Eliseo Velasquez, Allison Venditti, Jimmy Vergara, Steven Vila, William Wagner, James Wall, Jason Ware, Elzie Washington, Howard Watler, Thomas Weeks, James Whitehead, Rebecca Williams, Robbie Wittman, James Woolard, Daniel Wray, John Wu, Calvin Yan, Yutaro Yotsuzuka (Board of Directors), Tony Zang, Christos Zouzias

Rockefeller Group former employees include Ed Guiltinan, Robert Jackson, Daniel MacEachron, Tetsuya Masuda, Atsushi Nakajima, Dan Rashin, Vincent Silvestri, Jonathan Bersch, Chris Brill-Edwards, Justin Huebener, Eden Jeon, Taku Tanikawa, Yoko Yamada.

Partners and collaborators include, from our leasing partner CBRE: Mary Ann Tighe, John Maher, Howard Fiddle, David Caperna, Evan Haskell, Sarah Pontius, Eric Gelber, and Jordan Kaplan; from Turner Construction: Charlie Whitney, Jeff Klinger, Michael Nolan, and Jose Anjos; from Pei Cobb Freed & Partners: Jay Berman, Katherine Bojsza, Christopher Jend, and Mike Flynn; from Ken Smith Workshop: Ken Smith, Hardy Stecker; from Langan: Colette Dilauro; from Forst Consulting: Ralph Forst, Martin Parker; from OneLUX Studio: Jack Bailey; from Higgens and Quasbarth: Cas Stachelberg; from Gensler: Molly Murphy, Beth Novitzky, Tom Vecchione; from Fogarty Finger, our headquarters architect: Robert Finger, Alexandra Cuber, Candace Rimes, Evan Smith, Ana Luiza Addor.

To the cooperating brokerage professionals, who represented tenants in their lease negotiations for space in the building, we extend our compliments and thanks to CBRE’s Scott Gottlieb, Ken Meyerson, Chris Corrinet, Brendan Herlihy, Daniel Wilpon, Ken Rapp, David Kleinhandler, Tim Dempsey, Zachary Weil, Scott Gamber, Craig Reicher, Michael Geoghegan, Andrew Sussman, Peter Gamber, Gary Trock, Zach Parise; Savills’s Mitchell Steir, Matthew Barlow, Steve Berliner, David Goldstein; Cushman & Wakefield’s John Cefaly, Robert Lowe, Gus Field, Peyton Horn; JLL’s Peter Riguardi, Mike Shenot, Joe Messina, Andrew Coe, Charles Gerace; and Newmark Knight Frank’s Brad Needleman, Jason Perla.