Message #118577

[Jeannette Latoria]

Former buildings

The Center Theatre (formerly the RKO Roxy Theatre; the only structure in the original Rockefeller Center to be demolished)
75 Rockefeller Plaza (originally the Esso Building, later the Time Warner Building)
AXA Equitable Building (formerly the Sperry Rand Building), 1290 Avenue of Americas
Hilton New York Hotel & Towers (formerly The New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center)
For a short time in the late 1950s, the Center also owned the original Roxy Theatre. The Roxy was purchased to obtain the air-rights to build the Time & Life Building. Once that building went up, the theater was sold and replaced by an office building. This building, while not part of the Center, is now connected to the Time & Life Building.