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1095 Avenue of the Americas is a 630-foot-tall (190 m) skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was constructed from 1971 to 1973 to be the headquarters of New York Telephone Company and has 41 floors. [1] The building also served as the headquarters of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. [2]
The avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, at the behest of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, [25] who signed the bill into law on October 2, 1945. [26] The intent was to honor "Pan-American ideals and principles" [ 27 ] and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to ...
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
1065 Avenue of the Americas (also known as 5 Bryant Park) is a 451-foot-tall (137 m) office building at 1065 Sixth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was completed in 1957 and has 38 floors totaling approximately 680,000 square feet.
Though the BOT created free transfers at many points across the New York City Subway system in 1948, a free transfer was not added between the 42nd Street–Bryant Park and Fifth Avenue stations at the time because of heavy congestion in the "Times Square and 34th Street areas". [82]
The Spring Street station is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at Spring Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in the Hudson Square and SoHo neighborhoods of lower Manhattan, it is served by the C and E trains, the former of which is replaced by the A train during late nights.
Located in the Flatiron district of New York City, the just-under 26,000 square-feet space boasts two kitchens, a full-sized and fully-stocked cocktail bar with enough seating for every employee ...
New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...