the Garden's income dwindled. But in 1932, despite the adverse business
situation, the Garden spent $160,000 to build the Madison Square Garden
Bowl, seating 80,000 people, in Long Island City. Though the Bowl
proved of little or no profit (having been used only for an occasional
prize fight and in 1936 for midget auto racing on a specially constructed
asphalt track), the Garden has recovered from the lean days of the early
1930's.

The Garden is still said to be "the largest and most prosperous sports
organization in the world." From early October until late May the arena
is rarely empty. But when the thirty-six circus elephants lumber from the
building, signaling the close of the season, the Garden goes dark. Then,
for four months, New York is quieter and less colorful.

Rockefeller Center

5th Ave. to 6th Ave., 48th to 51st St. IRT Broadway-7th Ave. subway (local) to
50th St.; or IRT Lexington Ave. subway (local) to 51st St.; or 8th Ave. (Inde-
pendent) Queens subway to 5th Ave. (53d St.) ; or BMT subway (local) to 49th
St.; or 5th or 6th Ave. bus to 50th St.

Guided Tours. Rockefeller Center: adults $1.00, children 50c; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
National Broadcasting Company Studios: studio tour 55c, television tour 55c, com-
bination 90c; 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. (does not include sponsored broadcasts). Sky
Gardens: 5o0, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 1 to November 1.

Single Admissions. Radio City Music Hall: 400 to $1.65, performances begin about
11:30 a.m. Observatory (RCA Building, 70th floor): adults 40c, children 20c; 10
a.m. to midnight.

The twelve buildings of Rockefeller Center constitute not only a vast
skyscraper group but an organized city. The group, said to be the largest
ever undertaken by private enterprise, represents the belated culmination
of the boom of the 1920's.

Covering twelve land acres in the fashionable mid-town shopping dis-
trict, the project includes a vast skyscraper office center, a shopping center,
an exhibition center, and a radio and amusement center. The western front,
along Sixth Avenue, is made up of buildings devoted primarily to enter-
tainment: the RKO Building and the adjoining Radio City Music Hall, the
National Broadcasting Company's extension of the seventy-story RCA
Building, and the Center Theater. The name "Radio City," which is often
incorrectly applied to all of Rockefeller Center, properly designates only
this western portion.

Sharing the eastern exposure, four lesser buildings serve as Fifth Avenue
showcases for foreign nations: the British Empire Building, La Maison