It may not be the tallest address in town, but it surely has one of its best views—an 850-foot-high perch gazing out over Central Park to the north and the Empire State Building to the south. The place gets busier as the day goes on, though we

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It may not be the tallest address in town, but it surely has one of its best views—an 850-foot-high perch gazing out over Central Park to the north and the Empire State Building to the south. The place gets busier as the day goes on, though we arrived just after 10 a.m. on a Saturday during peak summer tourist season without so much as a line or scrum to get to the edge to see the views. Acrophobics will appreciate the glass-enclosed observation decks on the 67th and 69th floors of "the Rock" (aka, 30 Rockefeller Center, home to NBC, among other clientele). The 70th-floor deck is a breezy, open-air affair with excellent 360-degree panoramas of Manhattan and beyond (not to mention, room to cruise around as if you're at your own private cocktail party—try that at the packed-to-the-gills Empire State).

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