Current Status: Completed
MetLife Building Vital Stats
Address: 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166 (Community Board 5)
Type: Commercial
Name: MetLife Building; Pan Am Building
Construction: Begun 1960; Completed 1963
Design Architect: Emory Roth & Sons; Pietro Belluschi
Executive Architect: _
Developer: _
Builder: _
Height: 808 feet (246 meters); 59 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 2,841,511 square feet; 263,985 square meters
Site Area: 1,540,701 square feet; 143,136 square meters
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
Loopholes Exploited:
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
How to Game the Zoning Codes to Build Supertall Skyscrapers by James S. Russell
In CityLab, James S. Russell (with a little help from LW! Executive Director, Sean Khorsandi, who was interviewed for the article) focuses on three supertall NYC skyscrapers--including 50 West 66th Street (see Page 2 of the article below)--to reveal just how creative...
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LANDMARK WEST! has been asking #isitsafe and the FDNY has just answered: "No". Is the Dept. of Buildings listening? When LW! first learned of the bait and switch at 50 West 66th Street - from a 292-foot, 25 story building to a 775-foot, 39 story building with just 127...
Upper West Fraud?
The Upper West Side is known for many things--but fraud? Not necessarily as EXTELL's 50 West 66th Street hasn't been named yet, but read on: Our friends at THE REAL DEAL (linked, but article since removed) Published "Extell's former EB-5 regional center director says...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
