1221 Avenue of the Americas

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building_name = McGraw-Hill Building


caption = Rockefeller Center 'XYZ' Buildings on Sixth Avenue. The middle one is McGraw-Hill.
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location = 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA
coordinates = coor dms|40|45|33|N|73|58|54|W
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constructed = 1969
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use = offices
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roof = 674 feet (207 m)
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floor_count = 51
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architect = Wallace Harrison
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1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building is a skyscraper built in 1969, located at 1221 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It is the second building in Manhattan to have the McGraw-Hill name, and is one of several buildings which are part of the Rockefeller Center complex expansion in the 1960s. It is convert|674|ft|m high (207 m) and 51 stories. On the 36th floor lies the headquarters for media company Sirius Satellite Radio and is where the Howard Stern Show is broadcast.

The expansion consisted of the three buildings collectively known as the "XYZ Buildings" (this is the Y building), each with similar slab-like massing, of different heights and designed by Wallace Harrison's firm.

In popular culture

The buildings are featured in the opening credits of "Saturday Night Live", seen from below looking up in the street from a car. It was used for the exteriors and lobby of Elias-Clark's headquarters in the 2006 film "The Devil Wears Prada". It is also home of the "Covino and Rich" Show on the Maxim Radio channel 108 of Sirius XM.

Nicholas White, an employee of the building, was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours on October 1999. After entering an express elevator on a Friday night, a brief dip in electricity caused the elevator to stop. White was trapped alone and was not found despite signaling an alarm and surveillance video inside the elevator cab. [Tierney, John. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E1D81038F93BA15753C1A96F958260 "The Big City; Aftermath Of 40 Hours In an Elevator"] , "The New York Times", October 28, 1999. Accessed October 4, 2008.]

ee also

*List of tallest buildings in New York City

References

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten

External links

* [http://www.rockgroupdevelopment.com/1221sixth/1221.html Official Site]
* [http://www.thecityreview.com/six1221.html Critical review of the buildings design]
* [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2598 Skyscraperpage.com]