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52nd Street (Manhattan)

Index 52nd Street (Manhattan)

52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [1]

93 relations: Art Tatum, August Wilson Theatre, Austria, AXA Equitable Center, Bebop, Bidirectional traffic, Billboard (magazine), Billie Holiday, Billy Joel, Birdland (New York jazz club), Broadcasting, Cartier (jeweler), Castle Communications, CBS, CBS Building, Charlie Parker, Clifford Chance, Credit Lyonnais Building, Dead end (street), DeWitt Clinton Park, Disc jockey, Dizzy Gillespie, EF Hutton, Esso, Fats Waller, FDR Drive, First Avenue (Manhattan), Flatotel Hotel, Gallagher's Steakhouse, Greta Garbo, Harlem, Harry Gibson, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Holland & Knight, Housing cooperative, Hudson River, Hungary, Hustler Club, Israel Bonds, Jazz, Jimmy Ryan's, John Lennon, Kelly's Stables (New York City), Louis Prima, Manhattan, Marian McPartland, Midtown Manhattan, Miles Davis, Minton's Playhouse, Nat Jaffe, ..., Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, New York Passenger Ship Terminal, New York State Route 9A, Novotel, Olympic Tower, One-way traffic, Onyx Club (New York City), Paley Center for Media, Pedestrian zone, Police Athletic League of New York City, Prohibition, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, Salsa (dance), Seagram Building, Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, Street, Strip club, Symphony Sid, TD Securities, Thailand, The Daily Show, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Thelonious Monk, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Trummy Young, United Nations, Urban renewal, W. C. Handy, West Side Highway, Zambia, 133rd Street (Manhattan), 21 Club, 345 Park Avenue, 51st Street (Manhattan), 52nd Street (album), 52nd Street Theme, 57th Street (Manhattan), 599 Lexington Avenue, 650 Fifth Avenue, 666 Fifth Avenue, 6½ Avenue. Expand index (43 more) »

Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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August Wilson Theatre

The August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, is a Broadway theatre.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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AXA Equitable Center

The AXA Equitable Center (originally The Equitable Tower or Equitable Center West) is an American 752-foot (229.3 m)-tall skyscraper, located at 787 Seventh Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets in Manhattan, New York City.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Bidirectional traffic

In transportation infrastructure, a bidirectional traffic system divides travelers into two streams of traffic that flow in opposite directions.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

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Birdland (New York jazz club)

Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Cartier (jeweler)

Société Cartier is a French luxury goods conglomerate company which designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery and watches.

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Castle Communications

Castle Communications was a British independent record label and British home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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CBS Building

The CBS Building in New York City, also known as Black Rock, is the headquarters of CBS Corporation.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a member of the "Magic Circle" of leading British law firms.

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Credit Lyonnais Building

Crédit Lyonnais Building (also known as the Crédit Agricole CIB Building or earlier known as the J.C. Penney Building) is a 609 ft (186m) tall skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City.

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Dead end (street)

A dead end is a street with only one inlet/outlet.

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DeWitt Clinton Park

DeWitt Clinton Park is a New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, between West 52nd and West 54th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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EF Hutton

EF Hutton is an American stock brokerage firm founded in 1904 by Edward Francis Hutton and his brother, Franklyn Laws Hutton.

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Esso

Esso is a trading name for ExxonMobil and its related companies.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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FDR Drive

The FDR Drive (officially referred to as the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, and sometimes known as the FDR) is a freeway-standard parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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First Avenue (Manhattan)

First Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound for over 125 blocks before terminating at the Willis Avenue Bridge into The Bronx at the Harlem River near East 126th Street.

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Flatotel Hotel

The Flatotel Hotel was a 289-room apartment-style business hotel in New York City.

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Gallagher's Steakhouse

Gallaghers Steakhouse, a steakhouse restaurant located at 228 West 52nd Street in the Theater District in Manhattan in New York City, was founded in November 1927 by Helen Gallagher, a former Ziegfeld girl, and wife of Edward Gallagher (1873–1929), and Jack Solomon, a colorful gambler with a large loyal following from the sporting element.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish film actress during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Harry Gibson

Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Holland & Knight

Holland & Knight LLP is an international law firm with more than 1,200 lawyers and other professionals in 27 offices throughout the world.

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Housing cooperative

A housing cooperative, co-op, or housing company (especially in Finland), is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Hustler Club

The Hustler Club is a series of bars and chain of go-go clubs owned by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.

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Israel Bonds

Israel Bonds is the commonly known name of Development Corporation for Israel (DCI), the U.S. underwriter of debt securities (Israel bonds) issued by the government of Israel.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Ryan's

Jimmy Ryan's was a jazz club in New York City, USA, located at 53 West 52nd Street from 1934 to 1962 and 154 West 54th Street from 1962–1983.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Kelly's Stables (New York City)

Kelly’s Stables, also referred to as Kelly’s Stable, was a jazz club on Manhattan's 52nd Street in New York City, opened by jazz band leader Bert Kelly.

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Louis Prima

Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an Italian American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marian McPartland

Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner;Hasson, Claire,. PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer.

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Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan, or Midtown, represents the central lengthwise portion of the borough and island of Manhattan in New York City.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Minton's Playhouse

Minton's Playhouse is a jazz club and bar located on the first floor of the Cecil Hotel at 210 West 118th Street in Harlem and is a registered trademark of Housing and Services, Inc. a New York City nonprofit provider of supportive housing.

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Nat Jaffe

Nat Jaffe (January 1, 1918 – August 5, 1945) was an American swing jazz pianist.

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Neil Simon Theatre

The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin Theatre, is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Passenger Ship Terminal

The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal (and also known as Luxury Liner Row or New York Cruise Terminal) is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.

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New York State Route 9A

New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) is a state highway in the vicinity of New York City in the United States.

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Novotel

Novotel is an upscale hotel brand within the AccorHotels group, typically slotting between the Grand Mercure and Pullman brands.

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Olympic Tower

The Olympic Tower is a 51-story building in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City on Fifth Avenue.

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One-way traffic

One-way traffic (or uni-directional traffic) is traffic that moves in a single direction.

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Onyx Club (New York City)

The Onyx Club was a jazz club located on West 52nd Street in New York City.

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Paley Center for Media

The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York and Los Angeles dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.

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Pedestrian zone

Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, and as pedestrian precincts in British English) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic may be prohibited.

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Police Athletic League of New York City

The Police Athletic League, Inc.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent's, or SVCMC) was a healthcare system, anchored by its flagship hospital, St.

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Salsa (dance)

Salsa is a popular form of social dance that originated in the Caribbean.

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Seagram Building

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel is a, 51-story hotel located in New York City near Times Square.

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare (usually paved) in a built environment.

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Strip club

Strip clubs are venues where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances.

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Symphony Sid

Sid Torin (born Sidney Tarnopol, December 14, 1909 – September 14, 1984), known professionally as "Symphony Sid", was a long-time jazz disc jockey in the United States.

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TD Securities

TD Securities is a Canadian investment bank and financial services provider that offers advisory and capital market services to corporate, government, and institutional clients worldwide.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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The Four Seasons Restaurant

The Four Seasons was a New American cuisine restaurant in New York City located at 99 East 52nd Street, in the Seagram Building in Midtown Manhattan.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist.

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Trummy Young

James "Trummy" Young (January 12, 1912 – September 10, 1984) was an African-American trombonist in the swing era.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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W. C. Handy

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues.

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West Side Highway

The West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway) is a mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) that runs from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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133rd Street (Manhattan)

133rd Street is a street in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City.

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21 Club

The 21 Club, often simply 21, is an American traditional cuisine restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City.

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345 Park Avenue

345 Park Avenue is a skyscraper in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that occupies a full city block with the front on Park Avenue, the back on Lexington Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets.

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51st Street (Manhattan)

51st Street is a long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.

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52nd Street (album)

52nd Street is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1978.

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52nd Street Theme

"52nd Street Theme" is a 1944 jazz standard.

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57th Street (Manhattan)

57th Street is one of New York City's major thoroughfares, which runs as a two-way street east-west in the Midtown section of the borough of Manhattan, from the New York City Department of Sanitation's dock on the Hudson River at the West Side Highway to a small park overlooking the East River built on a platform suspended above the FDR Drive.

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599 Lexington Avenue

599 Lexington Avenue is a 653 ft (199m) tall, 50-story skyscraper in New York City, New York designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.

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650 Fifth Avenue

650 Fifth Avenue (earlier known as the Piaget Building and the Pahlavi Foundation Building) is a 36-story building on the edge of Rockefeller Center on 52nd Street in New York City.

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666 Fifth Avenue

666 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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6½ Avenue

6½ Avenue is a north-south pedestrian passageway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running from West 51st to West 57th Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_(Manhattan)

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