1345 Avenue of the Americas

Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York September 2025 August 2019 1345 Avenue of the Americas Burlington House AllianceBernstein Building 1345_Avenue_of_the_Americas_April_2022.jpg 250px April, 2022 1345 6th AvenueNew York, New York, U.S. yes 40.763074 -73.978752 inline,title 1966 1969 Commercial 625 ft m on 605 ft m 50 36 1998994 sqft m2 0 on Emery Roth & Sons Fisher Brothers Fisher Brothers 1345 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the AllianceBernstein Building and formerly the Burlington House) is a 625 feet on-tall, 50-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/1345-avenue-of-the-americas/1961 1345 Avenue of the Americas The Skyscraper Center June 12, 2017 Located on Sixth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets, the building was built by Fisher Brothers and designed by Emery Roth & Sons. When completed in 1969, the building was originally named after Burlington Industries. 1345 Avenue of the Americas is an unrelieved slab structure in the International Style, sometimes referred to as "corporate" style, faced with dark glass. The building replaced the original Ziegfeld Theatre on the site. Its small plaza had two fountains on each street corner shaped like a dandelion seedheads, designed by Australian architect Robert Woodward in 1968. The fountains were of similar design to his 1961 El Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross, Sydney. The fountains were removed when the plaza was upgraded in 2019. In 2025, Blackstone Inc. offered to buy an ownership stake in 1345 Avenue of the Americas from Fisher Brothers,Wong Natalie Sidders Jack January 30, 2025 Blackstone Set for New York Office Comeback With Midtown Buy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/blackstone-set-for-new-york-office-comeback-with-midtown-tower May 28, 2025 Bloomberg.comJanuary 30, 2025 Blackstone in talks to acquire 1345 Sixth Avenue https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/01/30/blackstone-in-talks-to-acquire-1345-sixth-avenue/ May 28, 2025 The Real Deal obtaining an $850 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase.Coen Andrew May 27, 2025 Blackstone Seals $850M Loan to Buy Stake in 1345 Avenue of Americas https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/blackstone-850m-cmbs-loan-buy-stake-1345-avenue-of-americas/ May 28, 2025 Commercial ObserverElstein Aaron May 27, 2025 Prominent Midtown tower gets just a two-year mortgage https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/midtown-new-york-office-tower-gets-just-two-year-mortgage May 28, 2025 Crain's New York Business First public cellphone call A base station atop the building was used on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper to make the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public. Cooper, a Motorola inventor, called rival Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. Engel was staying across the street in the Hilton New York. In popular culture In the film Spider-Man 3 (2007), 1345 Avenue of the Americas is the building Gwen Stacy falls from in the crane scene.Raimi, Sam (director) 2007 Spider-Man 3 Motion picture Columbia Pictures 1:35:00–1:42:00 It also serves as the foyer for the fictional law firm in the film Michael Clayton (2007). It is used as the establishing shot for the corporate headquarters of the fictional company, Dunder Mifflin in the television show The Office. The southeast corner housed The Mill, and it offered an eight minute ride on a moving walkway, that took visitors past knitting machines, and looms. The free attraction lasted until 1980. Today, a business took over the site. Tenants American Institute of Certified Public Accountants BBVA First Eagle Funds Fortress Investment Group CityMD OpenAI QuadReal Property Group Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Blackbird Worldwide Ground Alliance Netquall See also List of tallest buildings in New York City Gallery References External links Emporis Skyscraperpage Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan Category:Office buildings completed in 1969 Category:Emery Roth buildings Category:Midtown Manhattan Category:Sixth Avenue