By the time Sixth Avenue reaches midtown Manhattan, it has become a dazzling showcase of corporate wealth. There's little of the ground-floor glitter of Fifth or the razzmatazz of Broadway, but the Rockefeller Center Extension strikes an impressive note. Following the Time & Life Building at 50th Street, three near-identical blocks went up in the 1970s, and if they don't have the romance of their predecessors they at least possess some of their monumentality. At street level, things can be just as interesting - the broad sidewalks allow peddlers of food and handbills, street musicians, mimics and actors to do their thing.

Towards 57th Street

• Towards 57th Street

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