Showing posts with label Office Buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Office Buildings. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2015

ONE CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA

"1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, 60-storyhead office building of The Chase Manhattan Bank, in New York's financial district."

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

UPTOWN HEADQUARTERS OF FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK

399 PARK AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y.

PERMANENT EXHIBITION THE STORY OF BANKING
FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK
399 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.
Open Wednesdays from 10-6
Saturdays from 10-3

UNION CARBIDE BUILDING

"Headquarters for Union Carbide Corporation, this 52-story skyscraper is the world's tallest stainless steel building. Located at 270 Park Avenue, New York City."

LEVER HOUSE

Park Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets

PAN AM BUILDING

PARK AVENUE and 38th STREET
"World's largest commercial office building, 59 floors, 1/2 acre roof-top heliport, 808 ft. high, seventh tallest office structure in the world. 65 elevators and 18 electric stairways include the world's fastest high rise bank of elevators moving at the rate of 1,700 ft. per minute - four 4-foot wide moving stairs leading into building from main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, capable of handling 30,000 persons per hour."

Looking North - Grand Central Terminal in foreground

Looking South-East - Chrysler Building in Background

Looking South-East - Union Carbide Building in Right Foreground 

Grand Central Terminal before construction of Pan Am Building