165 PARK STREET NEW HAVEN ZIP

165 PARK STREET NEW HAVEN ZIP

The building is assigned its own ZIP Code-10166-and is one of 41 such buildings in Manhattan, as of 2019. Other nearby buildings include One Vanderbilt and 335 Madison Avenue to the southwest the Yale Club of New York City clubhouse to the west The Roosevelt Hotel to the northwest 450 Lexington Avenue to the east and the Graybar Building to the southeast. The building faces the Helmsley Building across 45th Street to the north and Grand Central Terminal to the south. The MetLife Building is at 200 Park Avenue, between the two roadways of the Park Avenue Viaduct to the west and east, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The MetLife Building has been renovated several times, including in the mid-1980s, early 2000s, and late 2010s. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) bought the Pan Am Building in 1981 and used it as their headquarters before selling the building in 2005. At its opening, the building was named for Pan American World Airways, for which it served as headquarters. Work on the project, initially known as Grand Central City, started in 1959 and the building was formally opened on March 7, 1963.

Subsequently, plans were announced for what later became the MetLife Building, to be built behind the terminal rather than in place of it. Proposals for a skyscraper to replace Grand Central Terminal were announced in 1954 to raise money for the New York Central Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the financially struggling railroads that operated the terminal. The MetLife Building's design has been widely criticized since it was proposed, largely due to its location next to Grand Central Terminal. The roof also contained a heliport that operated briefly during the 1960s and 1970s. In the lobby is a pedestrian passage to Grand Central's Main Concourse, a lobby with artwork, and a parking garage at the building's base. The facade is one of the first precast concrete exterior walls in a building in New York City. The building sits atop two levels of railroad tracks leading into Grand Central Terminal. The MetLife Building contains an elongated octagonal massing with the longer axis perpendicular to Park Avenue. As of November 2022, the MetLife Building remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States. It was advertised as the world's largest commercial office space by square footage at its opening, with 2.4 million square feet (220,000 m 2) of usable office space. Designed in the International style by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi and completed in 1962, the MetLife Building is 808 feet (246 m) tall with 59 stories. The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building) is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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