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Built in 1982 as one of the crown jewels of the Tishman Speyer real estate empire, 520 Madison Avenue epitomizes the idea of a tasteful and comfortable contemporary office building. The address of the building is somewhat misleading, as the actual entrances are located on 53rd Street and 54th... more

A crown jewel even among the opulent, antique boutique hotels of midtown Manhattan, the St. Regis was built by Gilded Age giant John Jacob Astor, frustrated by what he considered the city's inadequate lodgings, to provide guests he couldn't accommodate in his own homes the kind of luxury and... more

An accomplished expression of the ideals of the midcentury-hegemonic International Style, and the most expensive office building ever constructed at the time of its opening, the Seagram building is all the more remarkable for having been designed co-operatively by two acclaimed architects, American... more

A member's-only club for the kind of folks who wear their elitism like a badge of honor, the Harvard Club occupies two adjacent lots on West 44th street, a peculiar, haphazardly-built structure designed in several stages by the eminent architectural firm McKim Mead, and White. First organized in... more

The most accomplished structure to be built in midtown Manhattan's post-9/11 building boom, the Hearst Tower, designed by Norman Foster, is a stunning, irregularly-shaped glass-and-steel high-rise built on top of the original, six-story stone corporate headquarters. That building was designed to... more

"The world's most famous arena" boasts not just the employees of the Garden itself, but also its parent company (known also as Madison Square Garden) and its television network (known as MSG). Though it might not be too hard to find somebody who'd agree with that assessment, it's probably a chore... more