News Corp. Building
1211 Avenue of the Americas | also 136 West 48th Street, 125 West 47th Street, 132 West 48th Street | Times Square | built 1973
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- 1970
Rockefeller Center assembles an 85,000-square-foot Sixth Avenue plot and turns down offers to sell
By the time Celanese and Rockefeller Center announced the tower in September 1970, the Center had acquired every property on the plot, which measured 85,000 square feet and ran 440 feet west from Sixth Avenue along 47th Street and 415 feet along 48th. Its president, G. S. Eyssell, said the Center had refused at least two offers to sell the land at a profit during the years of talks with Celanese.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1970
Rockefeller Center reveals plans for a Celanese-anchored tower at 1211 Avenue of the Americas
In 1963 Esso asked Rockefeller Center for a new building, and the managers hired Harrison & Abramovitz to design three towers along Sixth Avenue's west side, one on each block from 47th to 50th Streets. The Exxon tower was announced in 1967 and a McGraw-Hill tower months later. Plans for the third, anchored by Celanese and sited between 47th and 48th Streets, were not revealed until 1970.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1973
The Celanese tower, the shortest of the 'XYZ' buildings, is a plain slab of limestone and glass
1211 Avenue of the Americas is the 'Z' building of Rockefeller Center's Sixth Avenue expansion, the shortest and youngest of the three at 45 stories and 592 feet. Its slab form has no ornament, and its facade alternates vertical stripes of limestone and glass. The stone piers number twice as many as the structure needs, and the unbroken glass bands give no hint of floor levels, which keeps the tower from looking bulky.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1995
Rupert Murdoch moves the New York Post's news and business offices into the News Corporation tower
In 1995 Rupert Murdoch shifted the New York Post's editorial and business operations into the News Corporation headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, a Sixth Avenue tower in Midtown. Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal, both also owned by Murdoch's companies, were the Post's fellow tenants there.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1996
Fox News Channel launches in 1996 and now broadcasts most of its programs from studios here
Fox News Channel began on October 7, 1996, reaching 17 million cable subscribers, after Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes as its founding chief executive. Most of its programs now come from the headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, including a streetside studio on Sixth Avenue. The building holds eight studios that the channel shares with its sister network Fox Business.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
News Corp and 21st Century Fox, the successors to Rupert Murdoch's original company, are both based in the building
Rupert Murdoch founded the original News Corporation in 1980, and the building served as its global headquarters. After the company split in 2013, both News Corp and 21st Century Fox were based here; Fox Corporation took over the Fox side in 2019. News Corp's units in the tower include Dow Jones, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2023
News Corp and Fox Corp sign 20-year lease renewals covering 1.2 million square feet
Both News Corp and Fox Corp extended their tower leases by 20 years in 2023, covering 1.2 million square feet between them. Fox gave up about a quarter of that space in 2025. Other tenants not tied to News Corp have included Annaly Capital Management and the law firm Ropes & Gray. The building is also known for Fox Square, the plaza at street level.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2025
RXR Realty buys a 49 percent stake and refinances the building for $1.45 billion
RXR Realty acquired a 49 percent stake in the tower in January 2025; Ivanhoe Cambridge owned it as of 2023. RXR refinanced the building that October with a $1.45 billion loan and announced plans to renovate it. The tower is LEED-certified at the silver level.
Source: Wikipedia
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