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1345 Avenue of the Americas

Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

Field	Value
name	1345 Avenue of the Americas
former_names	Burlington House
alternate_names	AllianceBernstein Building
image	1345_Avenue_of_the_Americas_April_2022.jpg
image_size	250px
location	1345 6th Avenue
New York, New York, U.S.
mapframe-wikidata	yes
coordinates
start_date	1966
completion_date	1969
building_type	Commercial
roof	625 ft
top_floor	605 ft
floor_count	50
elevator_count	36
floor_area	1998994 sqft
architect	Emery Roth & Sons
developer	Fisher Brothers
owner	Fisher Brothers

New York, New York, U.S. | mapframe-wikidata = yes

1345 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the AllianceBernstein Building and formerly the Burlington House) is a 625 feet-tall, 50-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Located on Sixth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets, the building was built by Fisher Brothers and designed by Emery Roth & Sons. When completed in 1969, the building was originally named after Burlington Industries.

1345 Avenue of the Americas is an unrelieved slab structure in the International Style, sometimes referred to as "corporate" style, faced with dark glass. The building replaced the original Ziegfeld Theatre on the site. Its small plaza had two fountains on each street corner shaped like a dandelion seedheads, designed by Australian architect Robert Woodward in 1968. The fountains were of similar design to his 1961 El Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross, Sydney. The fountains were removed when the plaza was upgraded in 2019.

In 2025, Blackstone Inc. offered to buy an ownership stake in 1345 Avenue of the Americas from Fisher Brothers, obtaining an $850 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase.

First public cellphone call

A base station atop the building was used on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper to make the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public. Cooper, a Motorola inventor, called rival Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. Engel was staying across the street in the Hilton New York.

In popular culture

In the film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), 1345 Avenue of the Americas is the building Bruce Wayne falls from in the crane scene. It also serves as the foyer for the fictional law firm in the film Michael Clayton (2007). It is used as the establishing shot for the corporate headquarters of the fictional company, Dunder Mifflin in the television show The Office. The southeast corner housed The Mill, and it offered an eight minute ride on a moving walkway, that took visitors past knitting machines, and looms. The free attraction lasted until 1980. Today, a business took over the site.

Tenants

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
BBVA
First Eagle Funds
Fortress Investment Group
CityMD
OpenAI
QuadReal Property Group
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Blackbird Worldwide
Ground Alliance
Netquall

Gallery

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References

"1345 Avenue of the Americas".
Wong, Natalie. (January 30, 2025). "Blackstone Set for New York Office Comeback With Midtown Buy".
(January 30, 2025). "Blackstone in talks to acquire 1345 Sixth Avenue".
Coen, Andrew. (May 27, 2025). "Blackstone Seals $850M Loan to Buy Stake in 1345 Avenue of Americas".
Elstein, Aaron. (May 27, 2025). "Prominent Midtown tower gets just a two-year mortgage".

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