888 Seventh Avenue

888 7th Avenue | also 212 West 57th Street, 890 7th Avenue | Midtown | built 1970

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The lot about 1940
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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. 1969

    Arlen Realty completes a 46-story office tower, designed by Emery Roth & Sons, that wraps around Rodin Studios

    Arlen Realty & Development built the 628-foot tower to a design by Emery Roth & Sons, and for years it was known as the Arlen Building. Its plan is an L, with one wing running north to 57th Street and another east to Seventh Avenue around the older Rodin Studios. The building now houses the headquarters of Vornado Realty Trust and has its own ZIP code, 10106.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1995

    Redeye Grill opens across from Carnegie Hall with an 88-foot Red Grooms mural and bronze shrimp at the door

    Restaurateur Shelly Fireman opened the large Redeye Grill on Seventh Avenue in 1995. Guests walked in past big bronze shrimp sculptures to a two-story dining room dominated by an 88-foot mural by pop artist Red Grooms. The best-known dish was Dancing Shrimp, a dozen coconut-battered prawns stuck into a pineapple-filled oak ball so they wobbled at the table.

    Source: timeout.com

  3. 2005

    Fordham University leases two floors at Vornado's 888 Seventh Avenue for its development office

    Fordham University leases 33,532 rentable square feet at 888 Seventh Avenue, taking the entire seventh floor and half of the eighth on a ten-year lease for its Development Office. The university is about to start a major capital campaign and expects to double its Lincoln Center campus from about 800,000 to 1.6 million square feet over ten years. Vornado Realty Trust owns the building.

    Source: Internet Archive

  4. 2006

    Moed de Armas clads the lobby, elevators and plaza in white marble

    In 2006 the architects Moed de Armas renovated the tower's lobby, elevators and plaza, covering them in white marble. The building's heating and ventilation systems were also extensively overhauled, and the tower later earned LEED Gold certification.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2009

    1010 WINS, the all-news radio station, leaves 888 Seventh Avenue for Hudson Street

    1010 WINS, the all-news radio station, was probably the building's best-known tenant in recent years, and in 2009 it moved to Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan. A Forgotten New York walk along West 57th Street described the tower as a 46-story glass-front skyscraper and admired the marble triple-8 designs in its plaza.

    Source: Forgotten New York

  6. 2019

    888 Seventh Avenue holds its own ZIP Code, 10106, one of 41 such buildings in Manhattan

    By 2019 the tower is one of 41 Manhattan buildings with a ZIP Code of its own, 10106. It also carries the corporate headquarters of Vornado Realty Trust, and its tenants include Fordham University and the Fireman Hospitality Group.

    “…one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2019

    July

    Redeye Grill reopens after a 2018 kitchen fire with a new casual Café & Bar Room

    After a kitchen fire in 2018 closed the restaurant, Fireman Hospitality Group reopened Redeye Grill in July 2019. Fireman added a Café & Bar Room serving breakfast from 7:30 a.m. with its own all-day menu, and planned a steakhouse at the rear. The Red Grooms mural and Fireman's own sculptures, including a spoof of Botero's dancing women on the second floor, remain on view.

    Source: 6sqft

  8. 2026

    July 12

    Redeye Grill serves its last meals after 30 years when its lease expires

    Redeye Grill closed on July 12, 2026, ending a 30-year run as a pre-theater favorite across from Carnegie Hall. According to the New York Post, as reported by Time Out, Fireman Hospitality Group could not agree on terms for a new lease with its landlord. Founder Shelly Fireman had died the previous October at age 93.

    Source: timeout.com

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