520 Park Avenue

also 47 East 60th Street, 45 East 60th Street | Upper East Side | built 2018

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  1. 1917

    December 6

    The Grolier Club shows Persian and Levantine books and miniatures before moving into its new clubhouse

    To mark the completion of the clubhouse at 47 and 49 East 60th Street, the club stages a show of Persian and Levantine books and miniatures, which the New York Times reported on December 7, 1917 had opened the day before. The show comes before the club has officially moved in. On December 12 a workroom for women volunteers making surgical dressings for the American Fund for French Wounded also opens inside the building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1917

    December

    The Grolier Club completes its clubhouse at 47 East 60th Street

    The book collectors' club, founded in 1884 by eight men, bought two brownstones in 1916 for its third home. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed a restrained neo-Georgian building in red Flemish bond brick, completed in December 1917 for $129,348. The clubhouse stands beside the site of today's 520 Park Avenue.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1964

    May

    Members auction rare books at Park-Bernet to pay for renovating the clubhouse

    For the club's 80th anniversary, about 185 members donate rarities spanning the 15th to 20th centuries for an auction at the Park-Bernet Galleries. By the early 1960s the membership has grown from the original eight founders to about 600. The sale brings in $76,385, earmarked for renovating the building at 47 East 60th Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2012

    Zeckendorf Development picks Robert A.M. Stern and buys air rights from the neighboring church and club

    Plans for a tower on the East 60th Street block, long delayed by trouble emptying the existing commercial building, are announced in December 2012 with Robert A.M. Stern Architects as designer. Soon afterward the developers buy 70,000 square feet of unused development rights from the neighboring Christ Church United Methodist and the Grolier Club for more than $40 million. The design is unveiled in March 2014.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2018

    Robert A.M. Stern's 520 Park Avenue tower is completed

    Zeckendorf Development, led by Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf, finished this limestone-clad residential tower designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. At 781 feet and 54 floors, it is the tallest building on the Upper East Side. The developers had bought air rights worth over $40 million from neighbors including the Grolier Club and Christ Church United Methodist.

    Source: Wikipedia

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