101 Park Avenue

101 Park Avenue is a 629-foot (192 m) tall skyscraper at 41st Street and Park Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was completed in 1979 to 1982 and has 49 floors. Eli Attia Architects designed the tower. The building contains the Museum of the Dog.

101 Park Avenue
General information
StatusComplete
TypeOffice
Architectural styleModernism
LocationNew York City
Coordinates40.751337°N 73.977827°W / 40.751337; -73.977827
Construction started1979
Completed1982
OwnerH. J. Kalikow & Company
Height
Roof629 ft (192 m)
Technical details
Floor count49
Design and construction
ArchitectEli Attia Architects

It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film The Secret of My Success,[1] as well as the fictional "Clamp Tower" in the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch.[2] The building features in the 1991 Jeff Bridges film The Fisher King, and is shown as the site of George Costanza's office in a few ninth-season episodes of Seinfeld, as well as Dudley Moore's character's office in the film Crazy People. Person of Interest used the building several times including as IFT Headquarters in season one.[3] It is also featured as a crash site in the 2012 film The Avengers.[4] It was used for a brief exit shot in the 2012 Richard Gere film Arbitrage. Most recently it was featured as the office in the 2019 film Isn’t It Romantic.[5][6] The buildings roof was used in the 1985 second season feature length opener of Miami Vice, where Crockett & Tubbs face a showdown with an NYPD hostile to their investigation into a powerful Colombian drug dealing syndicate operating in the city.

It is also on the roof of this skyscraper that the final shots of the clip made for the piece Looking up, by Michel Petrucciani, were shot: we see the French jazzman playing the piano in the open air at the one of the pointed ends of the huge roof platform, surrounded by a helicopter ballet, against a backdrop of the sunset, with a breathtaking view of the neighboring Chrysler Building.

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References
  1. "The Secret of My Success Movie Filming Locations - The 80s Movies Rewind". Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
  2. "Gremlins 2 filming locations". IMDb. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  3. "Movies Filmed at 101 Park Avenue—MovieMaps". Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. "Film locations for The Avengers (Avengers Assemble) (2012)". Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved May 2, 2013.
  5. "Isn't It Romantic - Filming Locations". Sceen-It.com. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  6. "101 Park Avenue filming". 101park.com. 101 Park Avenue. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  7. TCS US Offices
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