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The “New York Times” recently wrote a piece on the famed skating rinks of New York City, USA, naming Bryant Park the best and going so far as to call the rink “a yearly miracle that materializes on the lawn behind the New York Public Library”. H2.0 is a block from Bryant Park, so most of us have the pleasure of hitting the rink at least once (it’s free if you have skates!). Sadly the rink will be closing on the 15th, so check the hours at Bryant park and skate your heart out!

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Ice skating at Rockefeller Center is a quintessential New York City winter experience. The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center first opened on Christmas Day in 1936. The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center can accommodate approximately 150 skaters at a time and the rink is 122 feet long and 59 feet wide. Tree A state of Prometheus, the Greek god of fire, left, overlooks the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink under a 79-foot tall Christmas tree in New York. The Rockefeller Center, at 50th Street and 5th Avenue, is a spectacular mountain of branches covered with around 5 miles of lights. The Tree is picked out every year by helicopter search, then cut down and brought to its new home at Rockefeller Center in early November. It opens each October for the winter skating season, handling up to 150 skaters at a time, more than 250,000 of them each year.
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