Our critic chats with the historian Daniel. Hood used the tops of elevator banks as setbacks to let as much light into the office spaces as possible and used the tops of the larger setbacks for gardens. Rockefeller Center Virtual Office at Workspace by Rockefeller Group Rockefeller Center Virtual Office Options The perfect option for today's remote workforce. You might say the plan for Rockefeller Center does something similar, fitting itself into the city grid while standing out. He designed a modern garden walkway, human-scaled, like the buildings on either side of it. NYC Underground Subway Rockefeller Center 45 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10111. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff. He saw art as a public service. Throughout the Depression, the construction of the center provided jobs for tens of thousands of laborers and helped boost the building industry in New York City.