One Penn Plaza

1 Penn Plaza

Location next to Madison Square Garden

One Penn Plaza seen from the east

One Penn Plaza (AKA 1 Penn Plaza) is a skyscraper in New York City, located between 33rd and 34th Streets, west of Seventh Avenue, and adjacent to Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden. It is the tallest building in the Pennsylvania Plaza complex of office buildings, hotels, and entertainment facilities. Official address: 250 W 34th Street, New York, NY 10001

History

The skyscraper was designed by Kahn & Jacobs and completed in 1972. It reaches 750 feet (229 m) with 57 floors. The tower has three setbacks at 7th, 14th, and 55th floors. From its location on the west side of Manhattan, most south, west and north-facing tenants have unobstructed views of the Hudson River.

One Penn Plaza is currently owned by Vornado Realty Trust. It was previously owned by Helmsley-Spear Inc., and the building was sold by Leona Helmsley and her partners for $420 million in the late 1990s.^[1]

Architecture

The building has 14 entrances and 44 elevators in seven banks. An underground parking garage provides 695 spaces for cars and is accessible from both 33rd and 34th Streets. Direct passageways at each end of the building provide underground connections to the Long Island Rail Road concourse of Pennsylvania Station, which is located one block to the south. The ground floor is leased to several commercial tenants, including the top floor of a 142,000 square feet (13,200 m²), four-story K-Mart store (formerly occupied by Woolworth), and a restaurant.^[2]

A public plaza and fountain are located on the west end of the building. Unlike traditional fountains, steam is dispensed in the winter and fog is dispensed in the summer to prevent water from splashing out during gusty wind conditions.^[3]

One Penn Plaza is built with structural steel and concrete, with grey solar glass and anodized aluminum on the outside walls. There are plans to install a cogeneration plant in 2009.^[4]

Tenants

• Parsons Brinckerhoff is headquartered in One Penn Plaza.
• Riverbed Technology, the global IT performance leader, occupies a suite of offices on the 17th floor.
• Cookie Jar Entertainment has an office in Suite 3324.^[5]
• Milliman, Inc., a worldwide actuarial consulting firm, occupies the 38th floor.
• Rockwell Securities, an investment firm, occupies the 16th floor.
• Cisco Systems, Inc., a fortune 500 IT networking and Telephony company, occupies the 9th floor.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in New York City

References

1. ^ Bagli, Charles V. (January 18, 1998). "Helmsley, Poised to Sell Empire, Mends Fences Along the Way". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/18/nyregion/helmsley-poised-to-sell-empire-mends-fences-along-the-way.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
2. ^ Holusha, John (August 25, 1996). "Kmart Coming to Manhattan With 34th Street Store". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/25/realestate/kmart-coming-to-manhattan-with-34th-street-store.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
3. ^ Barron, James (July 24, 1997). "Penn Plaza Solves Wind Problem With a Special-Effects Fountain". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/24/nyregion/penn-plaza-solves-wind-problem-with-a-special-effects-fountain.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
4. ^ Appelbaum, Alec (February 24, 2009). "Towers in Manhattan Gather Heat from Power Generators". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/realestate/commercial/25cogen.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
5. ^ "Contact-General". Cookie Jar Entertainment. http://www.cjar.com/cj_contact.php. Retrieved 2010-01-24. 

External links

Media related to One Penn Plaza at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 40°45′5″N 73°59′35″W / 40.75139°N 73.99306°W / 40.75139; -73.99306