1049 Park Avenue

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

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1921
Mills & Bottomley's 1049 Park Avenue is completed and wins an AIA gold medal
Mills & Bottomley received the commission in 1919 from Katharine Abbot of the Abbotsford Realty Corporation. The 13-story neo-Renaissance building was finished in 1921 for $350,000, with a three-story base, an unadorned midsection and a lavish terra cotta top. The American Institute of Architects gave Abbot its gold medal for apartment houses completed that year, praising the architects' design and proportions.
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1953
Retired Navy captain Stephen McKinney dies in a fall from his apartment window
Captain Stephen Booth McKinney, who had commanded the battleship Idaho from 1939 to 1941, moved to 1049 Park Avenue after World War II. In October 1953, three days after being placed under a heart specialist's care, he fell from the window of his apartment at age 68. The building converted to a cooperative in 1960.
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1970
The building's entrance opens every episode of TV's The Odd Couple
From 1970, every episode of The Odd Couple opened with Oscar Madison and Felix Unger stepping out of the entrance of 1049 Park Avenue. In the scene Oscar tosses his cigar butt to the sidewalk and Felix picks it up with his umbrella.
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