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Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York Not to be confused with 101 Park Avenue Building in Oklahoma City.

101 Park Avenue


General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	New York City
Coordinates	40°45′03″N 73°58′40″W / 40.750967°N 73.977781°W / 40.750967; -73.977781
Construction started	1979
Completed	1982
Owner	H. J. Kalikow & Company
Height
Roof	629 ft (192 m)
Technical details
Floor count	49
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Eli Attia Architects

101 Park Avenue is a 629-foot (192 m) tall skyscraper at 41st Street and Park Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

Eli Attia Architects designed the tower. The building contains various tenants, as well as several attractions and amenities such as Convene, Five Iron Golf, and Museum of the Dog. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10178; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019.

In popular culture

It features in the 1983 film Escape from the Bronx as President Clark's headquarters of the General Construction (GC) Corporation. 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 Center" 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. The rooftop of the building was featured in the 2011 film Friends with Benefits. The building is 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. The building's roof was used in the 1985 second season feature length opener of Miami Vice, where Crockett & Tubbs face a showdown with an NYPD hostile to their investigation into a powerful Colombian drug dealing syndicate operating in the city.

It is also on the roof of this skyscraper that the final shots of the clip made for the piece Looking up, by Michel Petrucciani, were shot.

Notable tenants

Convene
Five Iron Golf
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Fox Rothschild
Wendel (group)
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Morgan Stanley
CI Financial
Federal Home Loan Banks
Tata Consultancy Services (North American HQ)
Tiger Management
Federated Investors
American Kennel Club
Nippon Life
HJ Kalikow & Co LLC

References

^ Convene website
^ "Five Iron Golf | Indoor Golf Simulation | Find Your Balls". fiveirongolf.com. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
"The Secret of My Success Movie Filming Locations". The 80s Movies Rewind. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
"Gremlins 2 filming locations". IMDb. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
^ "Movies Filmed at 101 Park Avenue". MovieMaps. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
"Film locations for The Avengers (Avengers Assemble) (2012)". Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved May 2, 2013.
"Isn't It Romantic - Filming Locations". Sceen-It.com. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
"101 Park Avenue filming". 101park.com. 101 Park Avenue. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
"Filming Location Matching "101 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
"TCS US Offices". Retrieved April 9, 2023.
"Home". akc.org.

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Manhattan, New York City

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5th Av – 3rd Av (incl. Murray Hill)	One Grand Central Place 2 Park Av 3 Park Av 4 Park Av 10 E 40th St 18 E 41st St 29 E 32nd St (Grolier Club) 101 Park Av 110 E 42nd St 146 East 38th Street 152 East 38th Street 200 Madison Av 275 Madison Av 425 5th Av 461 5th Av Adelaide L. T. Douglas House Allerton 39th Street House Chanin Building Civic Club / Estonian House Colony Club Demarest Building George S. Bowdoin Stable Jonathan W. Allen Stable Joseph Raphael De Lamar House (Polish Consulate) Lefcourt Colonial Building Madison Belmont Building Pershing Square Building Robb House Socony–Mobil Building Tiffany and Company Building Union League Club Williams Club
Former	Bryant Hall Building Kaskel and Kaskel Building Latting Observatory Pennsylvania Station Waldorf–Astoria

Culture

Shops, restaurants, nightlife	Ai Fiori Café China The Cutting Room J. Levine Books and Judaica Keens Steakhouse Lan Sheng Okdongsik Wolfgang's Steakhouse
Museums/cultural centers	Girl Scout Museum and Archives Houdini Museum of New York Morgan Library & Museum Museum of the Dog Scandinavia House
Hotels	Grand Hotel The Knickerbocker The Langham Library Hotel Martinique New York Hotel McAlpin Hotel Pennsylvania The Roger Hotel The Wilbraham Hotel Wolcott Wyndham New Yorker Hotel
Venues and theaters	AMC Empire 25 New Amsterdam Theatre Nederlander Theatre Madison Square Garden The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Former	Anco Cinema Belmont Hotel Broadway Theatre Browne's Chop House Cafe Rouge Garrick Theatre Herald Square Theatre Hotel Pierrepont Kajitsu Liberty Theatre Maxine Elliott's Theatre Metropolitan Opera House Morgans Hotel Princess Theatre Reuben's Restaurant Sam H. Harris Theatre Savoy Theatre

Other points of interest

Green spaces	Bryant Park
Education	CUNY Graduate School of Journalism CUNY School of Professional Studies Guttman Community College High School of Art and Design New York Public Library Main Branch Norman Thomas High School Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library Stern College for Women William Esper Studio Wood Tobé–Coburn School
Religion	Armenian Evangelical Church of New York First Zen Institute of America Holy Innocents Church Millinery Center Synagogue Our Saviour Roman Catholic Church Redeemer Presbyterian Church St. Francis of Assisi Church

Transportation

Subway stations	33rd Street 34th Street–Penn Station 34th Street–Herald Square 34th Street–Penn Station 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal Grand Central–42nd Street Times Square–42nd Street
Railroad/bus	Grand Central Madison Grand Central Terminal New York Penn Station Port Authority Bus Terminal
Streets and intersections	Third Avenue Fifth Avenue Sixth Avenue Seventh Avenue Eighth Avenue 34th 42nd Broadway Herald Square Lexington Avenue Madison Avenue Park Avenue Park Avenue Tunnel

Related topics
Caspar Samler farm Garment District Koreatown Murray Hill Sniffen Court Historic District Tenderloin

See also: Manhattan Community Board 5

Structures on Park Avenue in Manhattan

Below 32nd Street

32nd–59th Streets

Above 59th Street

Transportation

Subway stations	18th Street (former) 23rd Street 28th Street 33rd Street Grand Central–42nd Street
Railroad stations	Grand Central Terminal Grand Central Madison 59th Street (unused) 72nd Street (former) 86th Street (former) 110th Street (former) Harlem–125th Street
Bridges and tunnels	Subway tunnel (14th–42nd) Road tunnel (30th–42nd) Road viaduct (40th–46th) Railroad tunnel and viaduct Railroad bridge

Former/unbuilt

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