One Astor Plaza is a high-rise office building located in the Times Square area of ​​Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building is 54 stories high and at an altitude of 745 feet (227 m). It was designed by Der Scutt of Ely J. Kahn & amp; Jacobs. It is located at 1515 Broadway between West 44th and 45th Streets and is currently headquarter for Viacom and MTV Studios houses, Minskoff Theater, PlayStation Theater, and several retail outlets. The Astor Hotel has occupied this site from 1904 to 1967. The construction of this building began in 1968 and was completed in 1972. The building is the headquarters of WT Grant's retail network, which leases nearly 400,000 square feet (37,000m 2 ) room on the top floor of building 14, but only occupied for four years until their 1976 liquidation.
Owned and managed by SL Green Realty Corporation. The engineers building Engineer Shmerykowsky Consulting.
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Floor
Third Floor: Minskoff Theater
The Minskoff is a Broadway theater named after the developer, a prominent local real estate family. Accessible from a central arcade in the center of the building, opened in 1973 with 1,621 seats.
Floor Two: MTV Studios
Astor Plaza houses MTV Studios, owned by Viacom, the main tenant of the building. The studio is located on the second floor of the loft building. MTV acquired in 1997. Originally broken down into three large studios all located by floor-to-ceiling windows and iconic window shades. The three studios are named after the three parts of Manhattan: Studio Uptown, Midtown Studio, and Downtown Studio. They are so named because they are comparable to the real part of Manhattan. Studio Uptown is home to MTV's flagship program, Total Request Live , during the show from 1998 to 2008 along with MTV and VH1 and is now a ropostale store AÃÆ'Â ©. Midtown Studio is used by MTV, MTV News, VH1 Big Morning Buzz Live and on Nickelodeon and Comedy Central occasions. The smallest studio, Downtown Studio, is sometimes used for other countdown events, and the production of some of the smaller Viacom networks. Sometimes used as a temporary green space if the green space is actually occupied. The MTV Studios also include dressing rooms, control rooms, cafeterias, and several offices.
MTV also uses a seven storey roof and many upstairs in the building.
Retail street level
The first floor includes Oakley, Billabong, Element Skateboard, Ropostale shop, and Junior restaurant, famous for its cheesecake.
Lower Level: PlayStation Theater
Loews Cinema Astor Plaza originally occupied the public spaces of the building beneath the street surface, accessible from West 44th St. It opened on June 26, 1974, and is the largest capacity cinema in New York at 1,440 seats. The single-screen theater often attracts many people on the opening night. It closed in 2004, making it the largest Clearview Ziegfeld Theater New York cinema.
After nine months, a $ 21 million renovation, the space reopened as a music venue under the ownership of Anschutz Entertainment Group, currently known as the PlayStation Theater (formerly Nokia Theater Times Square and Best Buy Theater).
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2010 car bombing attempt
On the night of May 1, 2010, a car bomb failed to be defused by the New York City Police Department on West 45th Street and Broadway near the northeast corner of the building. Authorities briefly investigated the possible connection between the bomb and the 200th episode of Comedy Central South Park, which has included the description of a man in the bear suit (labeled 'Bears') that South Park's children pointed at, called him Muhammad. The effort was traced to Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistani-born citizen from Bridgeport, Connecticut, who became a US citizen in April 2009.
See also
- List of tallest buildings in New York City
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
References
Note
External links
- Emporis.com
- NYC Architecture.com
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