101 Park Avenue

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.

Not to be confused with 101 Park Avenue Building in Oklahoma City.

101 Park Avenue
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOffice
Architectural styleModernism
LocationNew York City
Coordinates40.751337°N 73.977827°W / 40.751337; -73.977827
Construction started1978
Completed1982
OwnerH. J. Kalikow & Company
Height
Roof629 ft (192 m)
Technical details
Floor count49
Design and construction
Architect(s)Eli Attia Architects

Eli Attia Architects designed the tower. The building contains an impressive roster of tenants, as well as several attractions and amenities such as Convene,[1] Five Iron Golf,[2] and Museum of the Dog. The building has its own zip code, 10178. The digits were intentionally chosen to commemorate the building's address ("101") and the year construction began ("78"). It is one of only 41 buildings in Manhattan to hold this distinction as of 2019.[3]

It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film The Secret of My Success,[4] as well as the fictional "Clamp Tower" in the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch.[5] 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.[6] It is also featured as a crash site in the 2012 film The Avengers.[7] 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.[8][9] The buildings 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. The 101 Park Avenue website has an ongoing list of its use in film and television. [10]

Notable tenants

See also

References
  1. https://convene.com
  2. https://fiveirongolf.com
  3. Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  4. "The Secret of My Success Movie Filming Locations". The 80s Movies Rewind. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
  5. "Gremlins 2 filming locations". IMDb. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  6. "Movies Filmed at 101 Park Avenue". MovieMaps. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  7. "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.
  8. "Isn't It Romantic - Filming Locations". Sceen-It.com. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  9. "101 Park Avenue filming". 101park.com. 101 Park Avenue. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  10. 101park.com
  11. TCS US Offices
  12. "Home". akc.org.


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