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Rockefeller Center Roof Garden Open to Public, Canadians
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John Del Signore
Published May 14, 2008
Modified Apr 22, 2009
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The elegant 7th floor roof garden at Rockefeller Plaza is usually off limits, but for the next two evenings the general public is invited up to sip cocktails while savoring the twilight view. The only catch is that you have to absorb a lot of information about Canada, because our northern neighbor's tourism board is the one footing the bill. But since their national sales pitch comes with free food, music, drinks and hand massages, who's complaining?
Last night the roof was crawling with gregarious Canadians facing the unenviable challenge of promoting tourism to their country while standing on one of the more appealing pieces of real estate in Manhattan. If they really wanted to lure us to Canada, shouldn't they have held this somewhere like Times Square's Arena? Anyway, we did learn a thing or two: Toronto, which is only about an hour away by plane, has a much bigger Chinatown than New York, and a lot less spitting. And they have cowboys out in the Canadian rockies; that's where Hollywood goes to shoot gay westerns like Brokeback Mountain.
Rockefeller Center's 620 Loft & Garden is open to the public tonight and Thursday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. [620 Fifth Avenue, entrance on 50th Street.]
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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