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Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic.It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street, passing through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), East Harlem, and Harlem.
The 370-foot (110 m) building was erected in 1930 on the southwest corner of Chambers Street and Broadway by developer Robert E. Dowling at a cost of $2.5 million. [3] It was designed by E.H. Faile & Company, [1] and replaced the headquarters of Chemical Bank (which had been built in 1907 to replace a building opened in 1850).
[46] [3]: 4–5 These street staircases contain relatively simple, modern steel railings like those seen at most New York City Subway stations. [ 3 ] : 7 The north end of the platform leads to a tunnel which connects on the left to a crossunder, and on the right to a passageway exiting fare control.
The B. Altman and Company Building was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in the Italian Renaissance Revival style and opened in three phases in 1906, 1911, and 1914. [7] [8] The main section on Fifth Avenue, opened in 1906 and expanded in 1911, has its facade designed as an arcade. [9]
The New York Trust Company acquired the old mansion at 277 Madison Avenue in 1922, where it opened a banking branch, [8] [13] and antique bookstore Rosenbach Company occupied number 273 starting in 1920. [10] [14] The Metropolitan Realty Company had planned a 14-story building at 24 and 26 East 40th Street in 1925, but it was not built. [15]
Kool Moe Dee, (b 1962) American rapper, writer and actor, considered one of the forerunners of the new jack swing sound in hip hop; Luis Flores, (b 1981) Dominican professional basketball player and is top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League; Aurelia Greene, (1934–2021) represented District 77 in the New York State Assembly,
The site of the two towers was originally a lot that hosted the Consolidated Edison Kips Bay Generating Station. [6] The lot was one of three parcels purchased by Sheldon Solow (along with the former Consolidated Edison Waterside power plant on the east side of First Avenue from 38th to 41st streets) and was planned to be redeveloped as part of a seven-tower, $4 billion complex designed by ...
[23] [18] The New York Times reported that the building had been "recently modernized" with new air-conditioning and elevator systems. [18] In the 1960s and 1970s, the building also housed tenants such as the Houston Chemical Corporation, [78] mail-order company Aldens Inc., [79] Oxford University Press, [80] and Partnership for New York City. [81]