Radio City May Be Topped With Park, Sky Bridge, Renderings Show

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Midtown's most iconic venue could get a new look if a city commission signs off on plans to construct a park and sky bridge atop Radio City Music Hall.

The plans were revealed in new renderings filed with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which will discuss them at a public meeting on Tuesday ahead of an eventual vote.

The rooftop park would be accessible from neighboring Rockefeller Plaza, 50 Rockefeller Plaza and 1175 Avenue of the Americas, via a new 10th-story sky bridge.

While it is currently empty, the Radio City rooftop has hosted gardens before. Photographs submitted to the Landmarks Commission show tennis courts, plantings and other recreation areas between the 1930s and 1950s — facilities that were apparently open to employees, according to a 1937 article from Screen & Radio Weekly.

Tuesday's presentation by G3 Architecture will focus specifically on the sky bridge, which will require alterations to landmarked Rockefeller Center buildings. Both the interior and exterior of the Radio City building, at 1260-1270 Avenue of the Americas, are designated city landmarks.

The park itself was designed by landscape architects HMWhite.

Tuesday's virtual LPC hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m.