#RIP 270 Park Avenue

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The 52-story Union Carbide Building. 270 Park Avenue, occupied the entire block between Park and Madison avenue, and 47th to 48th streets. Natalie de Blois and  Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1957-1960 (now under demolition to make way for a 70-story supertower, because new Grand Central’s zoning codes).

Night view looking southwest of the new Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960), from the top of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Late 1960. The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left, background.

Photo: Municipal Archives of New York City.

Source: Stern, Robert A.M.; Mellin, Thomas; Fishman David. “New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial” New York. The Monacelli Press. Second Edition. 1997.