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The enormous skyscrapers in Lower and Midtown Manhattan are partly made possible due to the strong, dense bedrock found underneath the areas. In this vintage photograph from 1932, see the under-construction Rockefeller Center, and the massive bedrock foundation underneath it.
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![Rockefeller Center under construction, New York City, 1932 | Rockefeller Center rises in mid-Manhattan. Photograph by Hamilton M. Wright for Aerial Explorations, Inc., N.Y., 1932.
From the New York World-Telegram Collection at the <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" rel="nofollow">U.S. Library of Congress</a>.
<a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=world-telegram&m=tags&w=76204898@N00&s=int">More pictures from the World-Telegram Collection</a>
<b>[PD]</b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36071" rel="nofollow">This picture</a> is assumed to be in the public domain.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/c03f905321f5e3e383d381201f21932e/elements/11d6625c54957665b67a1a7dae87b3ad/xs/2d9e6f2e-13c0-4bcf-8139-2834c4286132_2x.jpg)
![New York 1930s in Color! [60fps,Remastered] added sound!](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/d3badc7b6d9e47ba41b752078e8b3f9c/elements/b36096623fc37e7cf798be81bb6d3856/xs/c7ffed78-b42b-46a4-a040-7f844846e89f_2x.jpg)
