One Penn Plaza facts for kids
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One Penn Plaza, looking south.
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| Alternative names | 1 Penn Plaza |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Commercial Office |
| Location | 250 West 34th Street Manhattan, New York, U.S. 10119 |
| Coordinates | 40°45′5″N 73°59′35″W / 40.75139°N 73.99306°W |
| Construction started | 1970 |
| Completed | 1972 |
| Owner | Vornado Realty Trust |
| Height | |
| Roof | 229 m (751 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 57 |
| Floor area | 2,586,525 sq ft (240,296.0 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 44 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Kahn & Jacobs |
| Structural engineer | The Office of James Ruderman |
One Penn Plaza (1 Penn Plaza) is a skyscraper in New York City, located between 33rd Street and 34th Street, west of Seventh Avenue, and adjacent to Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden. It is the tallest building in the Pennsylvania Plaza complex of office buildings, hotels, and entertainment facilities.
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History
The skyscraper was designed by Kahn & Jacobs and completed in 1972. It reaches 750 feet (230 m) with 57 floors. The tower has three setbacks at 7th, 14th, and 55th floors. From its location on the west side of Manhattan, most south, west and north-facing tenants have unobstructed views of the Hudson River. The lobby was refurbished in 1995 and is undergoing another refurbishment beginning in 2019.
One Penn Plaza is currently owned by Vornado Realty Trust. It was previously owned by Helmsley-Spear Inc., which sold the building for $420 million in the late 1990s.
In 2009, plans were made to install a cogeneration plant in order to heat the building more efficiently. By 2010, it was reported that when the new plant was activated, it nearly cut the building's carbon output in half.
More than 80 percent of the action in the 2011 independent film Margin Call was shot on the 42nd floor of the building, which had recently been vacated by a trading firm.
Architecture
One Penn Plaza is built with structural steel and concrete, with grey solar glass and anodized aluminum on the outside walls.
The building has 14 entrances and 44 elevators in seven banks. An underground parking garage provides 695 spaces for cars and is accessible from both 33rd and 34th Streets. Direct passageways at each end of the building provide underground connections to the Long Island Rail Road concourse of Pennsylvania Station, which is located one block to the south. The ground floor is leased to several commercial tenants, including the top floor of a 142,000 square feet (13,200 m2), three-story Kmart store (formerly occupied by Woolworth), and a restaurant. On February 4, 2020, Sears announced that Kmart would be closing as part of a plan to close 32 stores nationwide. The store will close in April 2020.
A public plaza and fountain are located on the west end of the building. Unlike traditional fountains, steam is dispensed in the winter and fog is dispensed in the summer to prevent water from splashing out during gusty wind conditions.
Tenants
- Bytemark, Inc. occupies Suite 1100 on the 11th Floor.
- Law firm Gibbons P.C. occupies the entire 37th floor.
- MarkLogic, an enterprise NoSQL software vendor, has a suite of offices on the 42nd floor.
- Mitel Networks, a "unified communications solution" provider, occupies a suite of offices on the 25th floor.
- The Negotiation Institute (TNI) is headquartered in One Penn Plaza and occupies the 49th floor.
- WSP USA, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, is headquartered in One Penn Plaza and occupies the 4th and 5th floors.
- URS Corporation New York City Office occupies most of the 6th and 7th floors of One Penn Plaza.
- Riverbed Technology occupies a suite of offices on the 17th floor.
- Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP, a law firm, occupies a quarter of the 31st floor.
- CipherHealth has their headquarters on most of the 31st floor.
- Insight Enterprises has offices on the 19th floor.
- Cookie Jar Entertainment has an office in Suite 3324.
- Fullymail America, 20th and 21st floor.
- Milliman, Inc., a worldwide actuarial consulting firm, occupies the 38th floor.
- Vining Sparks IBG, LP, an investment services broker-dealer has offices on the 16th floor
- Cisco Systems, a Fortune 500 IT networking and telephony company, occupies part of the 6th and the entire 9th floor.
- Polycom, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, occupies the 48th floor.
- DLB Associates, the mechanical and electrical engineers for the majority of Google's datacenters worldwide, occupies the 26th floor.
- Icon Penn Plaza Parking operates the 695 car underground parking garage as of April 1, 2013
- The North Highland Company, a management consulting firm
- Blue Polo Interactive, has an office in suite 5320.
- Logicalis Inc., US Headquarters is located on the 51st floor.
- LISS Consulting, one of NYC's premiere Managed Services Providers houses a crack team of IT professional Special Forces on the 36th floor.
- CS Technology, worldwide IT management consultancy, is headquartered on the 54th floor
- Lexington Realty Trust is located on the 40th floor.
- Corvil Limited, US headquarters are located on the 14th floor as of January 2017. Some of their customers include 18 of the top 20 global investment banks and most of the world's exchanges.
- Molton Brown USA Limited, corporate offices located on the 41st floor
- Infoblox-NYC Sales office located on the 36th floor
- Lugo Cucina Italiana, an Italian Restaurant owned by LDV Hospitality, is located at street level
- WhoTrades subsidiary Just2Trade, an online equity trading and financial services firm, has offices on the 16th floor
- Valley Bank has offices on the 29th floor.
- CenturyLink has an office on the 51st floor
- ContentSquare - Digital Experience Analytics Platform
See also
In Spanish: One Penn Plaza para niños
