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General Information

Beginning of works: 1979
Completion: 1982
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: 101 Park Avenue
Coordinates: 40° 45' 4.68" N    73° 58' 40.08" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 192 m
number of floors (above ground) 49

Excerpt from Wikipedia

101 Park Avenue is a 629-foot (192 m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York. It was completed in 1979 to 1982 and has 49 floors. Eli Attia Architects designed the tower, which is the 109th tallest building in New York.

In popular culture

It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film The Secret of My Success, as well as the fictional "Clamp Tower" in the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch. The building features in the 1991 Jeff Bridges film The Fisher King, and is shown as the site of George Costanza's office in a few ninth-season episodes of Seinfeld, as well as Dudley Moore's character's office in the film Crazy People. Person of Interest used the building several times including as IFT Headquarters in season one. It is also featured as a crash site in the 2012 film The Avengers. It was used for a brief exit shot in the 2012 Richard Gere film Arbitrage. Most recently it was featured as the office in the 2019 film Isn’t It Romantic.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "101 Park Avenue" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20022201
  • Published on:
    09/07/2006
  • Last updated on:
    07/10/2016
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