Rockefeller Street

On October 26th, 2018, YouTuber Shi posted a video of a chain of Tik Tok Duets set to the song (shown below, left).[17] On November 6th, user BosMosVok posted a video calling "Rockefeller Street" one of the top five meme songs on the platform (shown below, right).[18] As of June 2019, the trend has accumulated over 84 million views under the TikTok hashtag #rockefellerstreet,[19] and over 2.3 million videos use the sample uploaded by @zee.456.[20] Eventually, on January 2019, an official trend under the hashtag #showtimechallenge was announced on TikTok, and has accumulated 43.8M views as of June 2019.[21]

Rockefeller Street

Search for "rockefeller street" spiked on May 2011, month in which the semi-finals and finals for Eurovision Song Contest 2011 took place. Searches start increasing on October-November of 2018 and peaked on January of 2019. This goes along the start of the trend on Tik Tok and the announcement of the official #showtimechallenge on January 2019.

Fifth Avenue: On December 4, 11, and 18, from 12:00 PM until 6:00 PM, Fifth Avenue, from 48th Street to 57th Street, will only be open to pedestrians. In addition, throughout the entire holiday season, moveable barriers will be placed on the east and west sides of Fifth Avenue, between 48th Street and 52nd Street. On days the street is not designated an Open Street, beginning in the early afternoon on weekdays and in the morning on weekends, these barriers will be used to repurpose a lane of traffic on each side of the avenue as additional pedestrian space. To accommodate high pedestrian traffic, westbound vehicle right turns will be prohibited from Fifth Avenue onto 47th Street, 49th Street, or 51st Street.

Rockefeller Center: Starting with the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on Wednesday, November 30, through early to mid-January, the city will pedestrianize the streets surrounding Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, using movable barriers to partially or fully close streets to cars and alleviate foot traffic along sidewalks. With the support of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and New York City Councilmember Keith Powers, West 49th Street and West 50th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, will only be open to pedestrians during the most congested hours, between 11:00 AM and 12:00 AM midnight every day. The NYPD will help ensure that vehicle traffic does not enter those streets. 041b061a72