101 Park Avenue

also 110 East 41st Street | Murray Hill | built 1982

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1913

    An earlier Architects Building on this block houses the city's leading architecture firms

    An earlier tower on the 101 Park Avenue block, the Architects Building, went up in 1913 and became the office address for many of the city's best-known architecture firms, among them McKim, Mead & White. It was torn down to clear the site for the present office skyscraper, which was finished in 1982.

    Source: culturenow.org

  2. 1982

    Eli Attia's 49-story tower at 101 Park Avenue opens, built by the Kalikow firm

    Construction began in 1979 and the 629-foot, 49-floor tower opened in 1982, designed by Eli Attia Architects for the H. J. Kalikow & Company real-estate firm, which still owns it. The building later received its own ZIP Code, 10178, one of 41 Manhattan buildings with that distinction as of 2019.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1985

    Miami Vice uses the roof of 101 Park Avenue for its season-two opener

    The roof of 101 Park Avenue was used in the feature-length opener of Miami Vice's second season in 1985. In the episode, detectives Crockett and Tubbs face a New York police force hostile to their investigation. The case concerns a powerful drug-dealing syndicate from Colombia that is operating in the city.

    “The building's roof was used in the 1985 second season feature length opener of Miami Vice…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1987

    101 Park Avenue stands in for fictional corporate offices in The Secret of My Success

    Filmmakers kept returning to the tower. In the 1987 film The Secret of My Success its exterior played the fictional Pemrose building, and in 1990 it became the Clamp Center of Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In Seinfeld's ninth season it was the site of George Costanza's office, and in 2012 it appeared as a crash site in The Avengers.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 1990

    Gremlins 2 dresses 101 Park Avenue as the fictional Clamp Center

    The 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch used the exterior of 101 Park Avenue as the fictional Clamp Center. The 629-foot tower at 41st Street and Park Avenue, which opened in 1982, has turned up in several other films and television shows, among them Seinfeld, The Fisher King and The Avengers.

    “…as the fictional "Clamp Center" in the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 2000

    May

    Peter Kalikow, the developer behind 101 Park Avenue, becomes chairman of the Grand Central Partnership

    Peter Kalikow, president of H. J. Kalikow & Company, was named chairman of the Grand Central Partnership in May 2000. By 1984 Kalikow had built more than ten residential properties plus the office building at 101 Park Avenue. His company's officers work in that tower, near Grand Central Terminal.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2017

    August 9

    The American Kennel Club leases 60,000 square feet and plans to move its headquarters from 260 Madison Avenue

    In August 2017 the American Kennel Club agreed to take 60,000 square feet at 101 Park Avenue from landlord H.J. Kalikow & Co. Its headquarters were to occupy the roughly 43,000-square-foot fifth floor, moving over from 260 Madison Avenue in early fall 2018. The club's Museum of the Dog, then in St. Louis, was to take space in the lobby and on the third floor in early 2019.

    Source: commercialobserver.com

  8. 2019

    February 8

    The American Kennel Club brings its Museum of the Dog back to Manhattan at 101 Park Avenue

    The AKC Museum of the Dog set February 8, 2019 for its opening in the Kalikow Building. Founded in 1982 inside the AKC's headquarters at 51 Madison Avenue, it had moved to St. Louis County in 1987. The new two-floor gallery shows canine art by Edwin Landseer, Maud Earl and Arthur Wardle, and has a Find Your Match kiosk that pairs a visitor's photo with a breed.

    Source: akc.org

  9. 2025

    Fox Rothschild takes the tenth floor and expands to 75,000 square feet at 101 Park Avenue

    The law firm Fox Rothschild moved into 101 Park Avenue in 2015 under a 15-year, 48,000-square-foot lease. In May 2025 that lease was restructured into a 12-year term running through 2037 for its whole footprint. The firm also took the entire tenth floor, about 25,000 square feet, in addition to its space on the 16th and 17th floors, bringing it to a reported 75,000 square feet.

    Source: commercialobserver.com

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