Posted May 1, 2021, 4:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Raysiri
That looks like the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
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All of the buildings of Terminal City, and from that era had a particular style, the Commodore on a larger scale...
270 Park is second from the left in this pic...
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/r.../22scapes.html
By Christopher Gray
Aug. 19, 2010
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.....it was the width of Park Avenue that offered the canvas for a much grander design, something really worthy of the name Terminal City. There were a few commercial buildings, like the New York Central Building, with its signature tower, spanning Park at 46th; and the crisp, cool Postum Building at 250 Park from 46th to 47th.
Office construction here was premature, though — the newly developed apartment house was in demand, as the well-to-do began to abandon town houses and pare their servant rosters.
Just north of the Postum Building rose 270 Park Avenue, with 3,000 rooms and, according to the magazine Buildings and Building Management in 1920, 100 millionaires. Its arcaded central courtyard, with triumphal arches, struck a particularly civilized note.
Directly opposite rose 277 Park Avenue, a colossal 12-section apartment house organized around a central court and 432 apartments.
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Terminal City began to dissolve after World War II, when commerce swept the avenue almost clean of residential buildings. The construction along Lexington has survived, except for the old Commodore at 42nd Street, refaced around 1980 for a new Hyatt. But its original gritty black smokestack still juts up from its back corner.
On Vanderbilt Avenue, the Biltmore was gutted and refaced with red granite in the 1980s to create the present, hulking office tower at 335 Madison. Here the legacy of Terminal City strikes a few poignant notes. Along 44th, the sleek, modern facade is interrupted by a taxicab ramp, descending to the concourse level of the station. The connection is now walled up, and the area is only a garage, but it is still roofed with the Guastavino tile seen elsewhere in the station.
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Basically we are witnessing the new Terminal City being built.
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