30 Rockefeller Plaza 22nd tallest in New York City and the 47th tallest in the United States. It stands 400 feet (122 m) shorter than the Empire State Building. 30 Rockefeller Center underwent a $170 million floor-by-floor interior renovation in 2014. The construction of Rockefeller Center occurred between 1932 and 1940 on land that John D. Rockefeller Jr. leased from Columbia University. The Rockefeller Center site was originally supposed to be occupied by a new opera house for the Metropolitan Opera. By 1928, Benjamin Wistar Morris and designer Joseph Urban were hired to come up with blueprints for the house. However, the new
Michael Rockefeller Rockefeller" which appeared on their 1986 album "Jamboree". In the travel adventure book "Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey" the Blair brothers claim to have discussed Rockefeller's death with a tribesman who killed him. Christopher Stokes's short story "The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller", published in the 23rd issue of "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" (Spring 2007), presents a fictional account of young Michael's demise. The 2004 novel "King of America" by Samantha Gillison is loosely based on the life of Michael Rockefeller. The 2007 film "Welcome to the Jungle" deals with two young couples who venture after Michael Rockefeller (thinking they