All year round you can skate at the Rockefeller Center in New York: from April to October it will be on wheels and the other months on the ice rink.
Thus, next April a tradition that had not been held there for more than eight decades: roller skating, which had given way to artificial ice from October to March.
This Sunday 20 will be the last day of the winter skating season at Rockefeller Center. Less than a month later, on April 12, the space will reopen for roller skates, which had not had a place there for 39 years ago, in 1940, recalled NBC News.
“The Rockefeller Center rink will be transformed into the cult classic Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace, Los Angeles’ legendary cultural hotspot of late of the decade of 1970 and beginning of the 1940”, recalled the station.
The concept is being revived by Liberty Ross, daughter of founder Ian “Flipper” Ross, and will operate for six months, until 22 in October, with weekly and seasonal programming and live music, including family and children’s events.
“The configuration will occupy approximately half the size of the traditional ice rink, with space for the public to observe the skaters and the commercial activity” around it.
Admission prices start at $22 dollars for adults and $12 for children under 15 years, not including skate rental. They can be purchased from now on this portal.
The track will work 10 am to 10 pm Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 10 am to midnight Thursday and Friday. Saturdays from 8 am to 12 am and Sundays from 8 am to 10 pm
Coincidence or not, the iconic TWA hotel located at New York’s JFK airport will also reopen a skating rink on wheels in the open air on 12 April.