Cables and Girders Frame Color:Unframed Rockefeller Center and the New

Rockefeller Center and the New York Public Library

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Four "common" electric clocks stood in for the timepiece until workers installed the new one in March 1954 - an act that was photographed by Times staff photographer Neal Boenzi

' The downside was hinted at by the nickname of the new Brooklyn baseball team

The Williamsburg Bridge can be seen in the background

Cables and Girders Frame Color:Unframed Rockefeller Center and the New"A cordon of police reserves was posted in and near Times Square to protect the spectators of a giant feat," The Times wrote in 1926. "A modern Hercules, steam in his nostrils and steel in his muscles, was lifting an unprecedented height and an unprecedented weight, so far as building operations go. A truss 144 tons heavy was being hosted with groans and snots to its place over the auditorium of the new Paramount Building at Forty third Street and