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.
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City Council Statement on Mechanical Voids
"The officials highlighted developer tactics such as excessive use of “void spaces” — unoccupied floors intended for mechanical equipment — in order to create extraordinarily tall buildings and circumvent the intent of the Zoning Resolution." The Council of the City...
Addressing the Voids
LANDMARK WEST! Executive Director was featured in an article in CRAINS NY (linked) alongside colleague Rachel Levy from FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts. Since both neighborhoods have similar zoning districts, they are both experiencing some of the...
The Facts of 36 West 66th Street
2018 ended in a flurry, and LANDMARK WEST! met the deadline to file a Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) challenge against 36 West 66th Street (the tower replacing the Jewish Guild for the Blind and Congregation Habonim's synagogue). 2019 begins with the...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
