| 345 Park Avenue | |
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 345 Park Avenue in October 2008 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Architectural style | International |
| Coordinates | 40°45′28″N73°58′21″W / 40.7578°N 73.9725°W /40.7578; -73.9725 |
| Completed | 1969[1] |
| Owner | 345 Park Avenue, L.P. |
| Landlord | Rudin Management |
| Height | |
| Roof | 634 ft (193 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 44 |
| Floor area | 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Emery Roth & Sons |
| Developer | Samuel Rudin |
345 Park Avenue is a 634-foot (193 m) skyscraper in theMidtown Manhattan neighborhood ofNew York City. It occupies an entire city block bounded byPark Avenue,Lexington Avenue,51st Street, and52nd Street.
Completed in 1969, with 44 floors, the building was designed byEmery Roth & Sons.[2][3] The building has its own assignedZIP Code, 10154, making it one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019[update].[4] It is near theRacquet and Tennis Club andPark Avenue Plaza to the northeast; theSeagram Building to the north;599 Lexington Avenue to the northeast; andSt. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and theGeneral Electric Building to the south.
It is built on the block containing the former site of the Hotel Ambassador, which had opened in 1921, as well as several townhouses and tenement buildings.[5][6] The Hotel Ambassador was sold toSheraton Hotels in 1958 and renamed the Sheraton-East; it was demolished in 1966.[6] From 1998 to 2000, the exteriors of 345 Park Avenue were used as the headquarters of CSC and Continental Corp. inSports Night, a TV series created byAaron Sorkin.[citation needed] In 2024, the ownerRudin Management announced that it would build a fitness center and restaurants for the building's workers.[7]
On July 28, 2025,four people were killed and another injured in amass shooting when 27-year-old Shane Tamura shot people with anAR-style rifle in the lobby and on the 33rd floor of the building. Tamura later killed himself.[8][9]
The skyscraper is set back behind a 20,690-square-foot (1,922 m2) public plaza that spans the entire blockfront onPark Avenue and extends back along a portion of the building's51st Street frontage.[10] The plaza allowed developerSamuel Rudin to obtain azoning "bonus" for including open space under the terms of the city's1961 Zoning Resolution;[11] the plaza was placed on the west side of the site to be compatible with the adjacent open spaces at the Seagram Building and St. Bartholomew's Church.[11][12] The plaza includes a 12-foot-high (3.7 m) sculpture by Robert Cook entitled "Dinoceras" that was dedicated in 1971 and commissioned byJack andLewis Rudin.[10][13]
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