345 Park Avenue is a 634-foot (193 m) skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It occupies an entire city block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, 51st Street, and 52nd Street.
| 345 Park Avenue | |
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 345 Park Avenue in October 2008 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Architectural style | International |
| Coordinates | 40°45′28″N 73°58′21″W / 40.7578°N 73.9725°W |
| Completed | 1969[1] |
| Owner | 345 Park Avenue, L.P. |
| Landlord | Rudin Management |
| Height | |
| Roof | 634 ft (193 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 44 |
| Floor area | 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Emery Roth & Sons |
Completed in 1969, with 44 floors, the building was designed by Emery Roth & Sons.[2][3] The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10154; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019[update].[4] It is near the Racquet and Tennis Club and Park Avenue Plaza to the northeast; the Seagram Building to the north; 599 Lexington Avenue to the northeast; and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and the General Electric Building to the south.
It is built on the site of the Hotel Ambassador, which had opened in 1921. It was sold to Sheraton Hotels in 1958 and renamed the Sheraton-East. It was demolished in 1966.
Exteriors of 345 Park Avenue were used as the headquarters of CSC and Continental Corp. in the Aaron Sorkin series Sports Night from 1998 to 2000.
In 2024, the owner Rudin Management announced that it would build a fitness center and restaurants for the building's workers.[5]
Tenants
edit- The Blackstone Group[5][6]
- Consulate General of Ireland
- Capital Trust
- Deutsche Bank
- Enterprise Ireland
- Tourism Ireland
- KPMG (since the building opened)
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- National Football League[7] (since 2012)[8]
- Piper Jaffray
- Bord Bia
- ClothesFlow.Co
- The Rudin Management Company, Inc.
- Wafra Inc.
- JPMorgan Chase
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "345 Park Avenue, New York NY". Real Estate Sales NYC. October 22, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
- ^ "345 Park Avenue". US /: Emporis. Archived from the original on February 12, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "345 Park Avenue". Skyscraperpage. Archived from the original on November 24, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
- ^ Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ^ a b Hallum, Mark (July 17, 2024). "Blackstone Finalizes Expansion to 1.06M SF at 345 Park Avenue". Commercial Observer. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
- ^ Davis, Emily (July 17, 2024). "Rudin cinches expanded Blackstone HQ lease". The Real Deal. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
- ^ Schefter, Adam (September 23, 2011). "The rise of Tom Brady". ESPN. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
- ^ "Inside the New Headquarters of the NFL". September 4, 2013.