| 101 Park Avenue | |
| Location: | New York City |
| Mapframe-Wikidata: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 40.751°N -73.9778°W |
| Status: | Complete |
| Start Date: | 1978 |
| Completion Date: | 1982 |
| Building Type: | Office |
| Architectural Style: | Modernism |
| Roof: | 629feet |
| Floor Count: | 49 |
| Architect: | Eli Attia Architects |
| Owner: | H. J. Kalikow & Company |
101 Park Avenue is a 629feet tall skyscraper at 41st Street and Park Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
Eli Attia Architects designed the tower. The building contains various tenants, as well as several attractions and amenities such as Convene,[1] Five Iron Golf,[2] and Museum of the Dog. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10178; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes .[3]
It features in the 1983 film Escape from the Bronx as President Clark's headquarters of the General Construction (GC) Corporation. It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film The Secret of My Success,[4] as well as the fictional "Clamp Center" in the 1990 film .[5] The building features in the 1991 Jeff Bridges film The Fisher King, and is shown as the site of George Costanza's office in a few ninth-season episodes of Seinfeld, as well as Dudley Moore's character's office in the film Crazy People. Person of Interest used the building several times including as IFT Headquarters in season one.[6] The rooftop of the building was featured in the 2011 film Friends with Benefits.[6] The building is featured as a crash site in the 2012 film The Avengers.[7] It was used for a brief exit shot in the 2012 Richard Gere film Arbitrage. Most recently, it was featured as the office in the 2019 film Isn’t It Romantic.[8] [9] The building's roof was used in the 1985 second season feature length opener of Miami Vice, where Crockett & Tubbs face a showdown with an NYPD hostile to their investigation into a powerful Colombian drug dealing syndicate operating in the city.[10]
It is also on the roof of this skyscraper that the final shots of the clip made for the piece Looking up, by Michel Petrucciani, were shot.