888 Seventh Avenue

888 Seventh Avenue is a 628 ft (191m) tall modern-style office^[2] skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan which was completed in 1969^[3] and has 46 floors.^[4] Emery Roth & Sons designed the building. 888 Seventh Avenue is L-shaped in plan, with wings extending north to 57th Street and east to Seventh Avenue, around the adjacent Rodin Studios.^[5] It currently carries the Vornado Realty Trust corporate headquarters. Previously known as the Arlen Building, it had been named for the company responsible for its construction, Arlen Realty & Development Corporation.^[6] The Red Eye Grill is located in the building at street level.

888 Seventh Avenue
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office
Coordinates	40°45′55″N 73°58′51″W
Completed	1969
Owner	Vornado Realty Trust
Height
Roof	628 ft (191 m)
Top floor	598 feet (182 m)
Technical details
Floor count	46
Floor area	873,599 sq ft (81,160.0 m2)
Lifts/elevators	20
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Emery Roth & Sons
References
[1]

Moed de Armas renovated the Lobby, Elevators & Plaza in 2006, cladding them with white marble. The HVAC was also extensively renovated and the building was later given gold certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.^[7]

The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10106; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019^[update].^[8]

Tenants

• Fordham University^[9]
• The Fireman Hospitality Group
• Protiviti
• TPG Capital
• Casimir Capital
• Tulsiani Spectre Trust
• Pershing Square Capital Management
• Visium Asset Management
• Vornado Realty Trust
• Pura Vida Investments
• Lombard Odier Asset Management
• Drake Real Estate Partners
• Caravel Management
• United Talent Agency
• Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group
• Cumming Corporation
• Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham^[10]
• Colbeck Capital^[11]

See also

• List of tallest buildings in New York City

References

• Skyscraperpage

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3. "888 SEVENTH AVENUE | Vornado Realty Trust". www.vno.com. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
4. "888 Seventh Avenue". SkyscraperPage. Archived from the original on November 24, 2007.
5. "News of Realty: 7th Ave. Project: Work Will Start Today on 45-story Office Building". The New York Times. August 7, 1968. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
6. "888 7th Avenue". Open Buildings. Archived from the original on April 27, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
7. "888 7th Ave, New York City | 42Floors". 42floors.com. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
8. Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
9. "University expands on Seventh Avenue". Retrieved July 17, 2013.
10. "Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham LLP in New York, New York".
11. "Colbeck Capital Management in New York, New York".