The street-level studio in the 1903 Stanford White creation has 18-foot ceilings, a marble fireplace and enough filigreed detail for an entire June of wedding cakes.

ABC 7 Chicago and CBS 2 would open their own street-level studios several years later in other downtown locations.

Searching out a more dramatic backdrop, the nondescript office is jettisoned for the glassy street-level studio, where the lights are on even though nobody's home.

But as soon as I saw the street-level studio in Park Slope, I was a goner.

On June 10, 2006 the band played inside the street-level studio of Toronto radio station 102.1 The Edge.

Such statistics have not gone unnoticed in the street-level studio at Rockefeller Center.

A street-level studio on my block would cost more than $300,000.

Before 1994, when NBC reintroduced its street-level studio in Rockefeller Plaza, the total rating for the network morning programs averaged about 7.4 million homes.

Requiring an estimated 115,000 total square feet, the building would include offices and glass-fronted street-level studios, where passersby could watch dancers taking classes and rehearsing.

And there will be a dramatic new 140-seat, street-level studio for live broadcasts, concerts and public forums.