| 1345 Avenue of the Americas | |
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 Interactive map of 1345 Avenue of the Americas | |
| Former names | Burlington House |
| Alternative names | AllianceBernstein Building |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial |
| Location | 1345 6th Avenue New York,New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°45′47″N73°58′44″W / 40.763074°N 73.978752°W /40.763074; -73.978752 |
| Construction started | 1966 |
| Completed | 1969 |
| Owner | Fisher Brothers |
| Height | |
| Roof | 625 ft (191 m) |
| Top floor | 605 feet (184 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 50 |
| Floor area | 1,998,994 sq ft (185,713 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 36 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Emery Roth & Sons |
| Developer | Fisher Brothers |
1345 Avenue of the Americas (also known as theAllianceBernstein Building and formerly theBurlington House) is a 625-foot (191 m)-tall, 50-storyskyscraper inMidtown Manhattan,New York City.[1] Located onSixth Avenue between54th and55th Streets, the building was built byFisher Brothers and designed byEmery Roth & Sons. When completed in 1969, the building was originally named afterBurlington Industries.
1345 Avenue of the Americas is an unrelieved slab structure in theInternational Style, sometimes referred to as "corporate" style, faced with dark glass. The building replaced the originalZiegfeld Theatre on the site. Its small plaza had two fountains on each street corner shaped like a dandelion seedheads, designed by Australian architectRobert Woodward in 1968. The fountains were of similar design to his 1961El 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,[2][3] obtaining an $850 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase.[4][5]
Abase station atop the building was used on April 3, 1973, byMartin Cooper to make the world's first handheldcellular phone call in public. Cooper, aMotorola inventor, called rivalJoel S. Engel ofBell Labs to tell him about the invention. Engel was staying across the street in theHilton New York.
In the filmThe Dark Knight Rises (2012), 1345 Avenue of the Americas is the buildingBruce Wayne falls from in the crane scene. It also serves as the foyer for the fictional law firm in the filmMichael Clayton (2007). It is used as the establishing shot for the corporate headquarters of the fictional company,Dunder Mifflin in the television showThe 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.
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