299 Park Avenue
299 Park Avenue | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Commercial/Office |
Location | 299 Park Avenue Manhattan, NY 10171 USA |
Coordinates | 40°45′22″N 73°58′28″W / 40.756173°N 73.974493°W |
Construction started | 1965 |
Opening | 1967 |
Owner | Fisher Brothers (50.5%) Rockpoint Group (49.5%) |
Height | |
Roof | 574 ft (175 m)[1] |
Top floor | 537 ft (163.6 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 42[1] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Emery Roth & Sons |
Developer | Fisher Brothers |
299 Park Avenue is an office building on
.History
Designed in the
The site on the east side of Park Avenue, between 48th and 49th Street, was formerly occupied by the original Park Lane Hotel.[4] The building was originally constructed over the primary rail tracks for the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue main line, which made the building's construction and engineering highly complicated. The foundation of the building was constructed through "ladder tracks", two layers of railroad tracks, not in platform position. The construction was completed without interfering with the operation of the railroad. In 1980 and then again in 1981, the building suffered damage from large fires—the 1980 fire caused injuries to 125 firefighters.[5]
For much of its history, the building was commonly referred to as the Westvaco Building and was the headquarters of
Since its construction, 299 Park has majority owned and controlled by
Tenants
- American Securities
- B. Riley FBR, Inc.
- Capital One
- Carlyle Group
- Cerberus Capital Management
- FBR Capital Markets
- Freeman Spogli & Co.
- GE Capital
- Gener8 Maritime
- Leerink Partners
- Lightstone Group
- Lincoln International
- Sagent Advisors
- UBS Wealth Management
- Traxys North America
- Consulate General of Japan in New York
References
- ^ a b "299 Park Avenue". Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "UBS sells stake at 299 Park Avenue". Real Estate Weekly, January 8, 2010.
- ^ Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ a b "A Fire Causes Damage IN PARK AVE. SKYSCRAPER; In Park Ave. Skyscraper". The New York Times, April 6, 1981
- ^ Realty News. The New York Times, January 10, 1982.
- ^ "Larry Fisher, 93, Developer and Philanthropist". The New York Times, February 7, 2001.
- ^ "UBS Sells 299 Park Avenue". Haute Living Magazine, January 11, 2010.
- ^ "UBS sublets space at 299 Park Avenue amid $1.3B loss" Archived February 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. The Real Deal, August 4, 2009.