| Location |
601 West 26th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues, a few blocks from where the RMS Titanic was supposed to arrive, at the nearby Chelsea Piers. |
| Completed |
1931. The same year as the following events:
- The movie Frankenstein was made
- The year James Dean, William Shatner and James Earl Jones were born
- Dali painted “The Persistence of Memory”
- Dick Tracy, a comic strip detective character, created by cartoonist Chester Gould, made its debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror Newspaper
- Whitney Museum of American Art opened in NY
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| Architect |
Cory & Cory, Purdy & Henderson and Yasuo Matsui, who also designed the Japanese Pavilion at the 1939 NY World’s Fair. |
| Building Size |
2.3 million square feet. 3.5 times the size of MoMA and larger than the Empire State Building (2.1 million square feet). |
| Ceiling Height |
13 feet. It is rumored that a giraffe was once photographed inside the building. |
| Windows |
8 miles of ribbon windows (originally 110,000 panes of glass). Longer than the West Side Highway (5.29 miles) and the perimeter of Central Park (6 miles). |
| Views |
Expansive views of Manhattan. From the George Washington Bridge to the Statue of Liberty. |
| Tenants |
More than 5,000 people work in the building every day. Futurist architect, engineer and inventor Buckminster Fuller was once a tenant at Starrett-Lehigh. |
| Drive-in Building |
Trucks can be driven in from street level to any floor of the building. This inspired the marketing slogan “Every floor a first floor,” when the building opened. |
| Pet Friendly |
More than 100 dogs are welcomed into the building every day. |
