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If you’ve gone through or gotten off at the 47th-50th St./Rockefeller Center station lately you may have heard the conductor announcing the stop and throwing in a blurb about the “Top of the Rock” observatory on top of Rockefeller Center.
A Transit Authority bulletin tells conductors to make sure and mention the tourist destination in their announcement. The only problem is, while the bulletin orders them tomention ‘Top of the Rock’, it fails to explain what the hell ‘Top of the Rock’ is.
Riders have been asking conductors what the heck is “Top of the Rock,” conductor Ronald Brockington said. “It’s making us look like buffoons.”
Whatever the announcement is, it’s not a paid advertisement. The MTA said that it’s a “free courtesy” to let riders know about the tourist attraction. A spokesman for Tishman Speyer, co-owners of Rockefeller Center are declining comment on where the sales pitch originated.
Scott Gocherman, 30, a retail manager waiting for an uptown F-train yesterday had this message for transit managers: “Get me from here to there. I want to get to work. I don’t need you to be trying to sell me anything.”
Subway riders screech over Rock Center ads [Daily News]
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