The Beam Experience at Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock is Open!

Dec 6, 2023 | News, Press

 

The new interactive experience called “The Beam” at Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock is open to the public.   The Beam recreates the famous 1932 photo “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” depicting 11 ironworkers sitting on a steel beam eating lunch high above Manhattan while 30 Rockefeller Plaza was under construction.   Visitors sit strapped onto a steel beam replica with a seatbelt on the 69th floor, lifted 12 ft. above the Observation Deck platform and rotated 180-degrees offering spectacular views of the city.    Architecture affiliate, MDA served as Architect of Record on this thrilling project.

 

Top of the Rock Opens 900 Ft. High Skylift Attraction

Top of the Rock Opens 900 Ft. High Skylift Attraction

  Skylift at Top of the Rock, a new attraction atop 30 Rock, elevates visitors nearly 900 feet in the air above street level for a spectacular, entirely unobstructed, 360-degree view of New York City. The design team for the Skylift included owner Tishman Speyer...

Skylift Opens at Rockefeller Center’s Top of The Rock

Skylift Opens at Rockefeller Center’s Top of The Rock

  Skylift at Top of the Rock, a new attraction atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza, has opened, elevating visitors nearly 900 feet in the air above street level for a spectacular, entirely unobstructed, 360-degree view of New York City. The design team for the Skylift...