Editing Rockefeller Center (section)

===Pre-existing buildings===
Two small buildings abut the north and south corners of the [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]] annex.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1939|p=339}} These buildings exist as a result of two tenants who refused to sell their rights to Rockefeller [[Construction of Rockefeller Center#Land acquisition and clearing|during construction]]. The grocer John F. Maxwell would only sell his property at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street if he received $1 million in return. However, Rockefeller's assistant [[Charles O. Heydt]] mistakenly said that Maxwell would never sell, and Maxwell himself said that he had never been approached by the Rockefellers. Consequently, Rockefeller Center did not purchase Maxwell's property until 1970.{{sfn|Alpern|Durst|1996|p=38}}{{sfn|Okrent|2003|pp=93–94, map p.&nbsp;92}} Maxwell's demand paled to that of Daniel Hurley and Patrick Daly, owners of a speakeasy who, since 1892, had leased a property at 49th Street. They would sell for $250 million, roughly the cost of the entire complex. They initially gained a lease extension until 1942, but ended up leasing their property until 1975, and was built around Maxwell's and Hurley and Daly's properties.{{sfn|Alpern|Durst|1996|pp=38, 40}}{{sfn|Okrent|2003|pp=93–94, map p.&nbsp;92}}

On the southeast corner of the complex, on Fifth Avenue between 48th and 49th streets, there were also two pre-existing buildings. [[Robert Walton Goelet]] owned a lot at 2–6 West 49th Street and wished to develop it;{{sfn|Okrent|2003|p=97}} the lot was developed as [[608 Fifth Avenue]], which was completed in 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1810.pdf|title=Goelet Building|date=January 14, 1992|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=January 2, 2020|page=2}}</ref> The [[St. Nicholas Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church|St. Nicholas Church]], located on 48th Street behind Goelet's land, also refused to sell the property despite an offer of up to $7 million for the property.<ref name="NYT-Church-Wont-Sell-1929">{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/01/24/95713809.pdf|title=Church Won't Sell Site to Rockefeller|date=1929|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 22, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The church was razed in 1949 to make way for 600 Fifth Avenue.<ref name="NYTimes-Church-Razed-1949"/>

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