Trump World Tower

845 United Nations Plaza | also 845 1st Avenue | Turtle Bay | built 2000

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  1. 1961

    November 9

    The United Engineering Center, later replaced by Trump World Tower, is dedicated with Herbert Hoover present

    The 20-story United Engineering Center at 345 East 47th Street opened on September 5, 1961. Herbert Hoover and Mayor Wagner were among those at its formal dedication on November 9. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon designed the modernist tower, clad in glass, stainless steel and limestone, for five founder engineering societies and fifteen other organizations. The Engineering Societies Library inside could hold up to 225,000 volumes, and demolition began on October 15, 1998, to make way for Trump World Tower.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1997

    Donald Trump and Daewoo agree to buy the United Engineering Center site

    In 1997, Donald Trump and partners including South Korea's Daewoo Corporation sign a deal to buy the site of the 1961 United Engineering Center at 845 United Nations Plaza for $52 million. Trump also acquires unused air rights from at least seven neighboring low-rise properties, including the Church of the Holy Family and the Japan Society. Demolition of the existing building begins in October 1998.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2000

    November

    Neighbors including Walter Cronkite lose their court fight against the tower

    Opponents of the planned tower, among them journalist Walter Cronkite, raise $400,000 to fight it, arguing the building would dwarf the United Nations headquarters across the street. The Municipal Art Society also challenges the project on air-pollution grounds. Opponents lose their case in state court in November 2000, clearing the way for Costas Kondylis's 861-foot design.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2001

    Trump World Tower gets a tuned mass damper, a first in a residential building

    Costas Kondylis designed Trump World Tower as a slender slab clad in a dark curtain wall, and it was completed in 2001 at 861 feet. Engineers at WSP Cantor Seinuk put a tuned mass damper at the top to counteract sway, the first such use in a residential building. Trump gained height by acquiring unused air rights from neighboring properties, among them two brownstones, Holy Family Church and the Japan Society.

    Source: old.skyscraper.org

  5. 2001

    Derek Jeter buys a four-bedroom condo for $12.6 million

    Derek Jeter bought a four-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath condominium in Trump World Tower in 2001 for $12.6 million. In September 2010 he put the apartment on the market for $20 million, $7.4 million more than he had paid. The unit is near the United Nations.

    Source: dnainfo.com

  6. 2001

    Trump World Tower opens as the world's tallest all-residential building

    Constructed between 1999 and 2001, the 72-story, 861-foot Trump World Tower briefly becomes the tallest all-residential tower in the world, until towers in Dubai and Seoul surpass it. Architect Costas Kondylis gives it a dark, bronze-tinted glass curtain wall around 376 condominium units. The top floor is labeled 90 because Trump declared a height of 900 feet and divided by ten, though city records list the building at 843 feet.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2001

    June

    Trump sells a floor to Saudi Arabia for its UN mission

    Trump sells the tower's 45th floor to Saudi Arabia for $4.5 million in June 2001. The kingdom makes the apartments part of its Mission to the United Nations in 2008. Other early buyers include about 65 units sold to Russian buyers in the late 1990s and a condominium purchased by Yankees star Derek Jeter in 2001.

    Source: Wikipedia

  8. 2006

    Trump calls in lawyer Michael Cohen to win control of the tower's condo board

    Around 2006 Donald Trump got into a struggle with the condominium board at Trump World Tower, the 376-unit building he had developed. He asked the lawyer Michael Cohen for help, and Trump ended up in control of the board.

    “Trump requested the assistance of lawyer Michael Cohen, and Trump gained control of the board.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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