Image Credit: William Wachter
Current Status: Completed
Chrysler Vital Stats
Address: 395 Lexington Avenue, aka 405 Lexington Avenue (Community Board 6)
Type: Commercial & Office Building
Name: Chrysler Building
Construction: Begun September 18, 1928; Completed May 27, 1930
Design Architect: William Van Alen
Executive Architect: __
Developer: __
Builder: __
Height: Height to tip 1,046 feet, (318.9 meters); 77 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,196,958 square feet; 111,201 square meters
Site Area: __ square feet; __ square meters
Density: __
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
Superlatives: Chrysler is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel frame.
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NY Post Covers LW!
For page 8 of the Thursday, July 31st print edition of the New York Post, (and online HERE, in a piece titled " Sky-scraping Billionaires' Row-style towers invade uptown NYC enclave — and locals are fuming,") reporter Joyce Cohen examines a question many New Yorkers...
LW! loses Appeal
Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department rules against the community on 50 West 66th. The brief decision is HERE. The court upheld the May 6, 2021 decision by Justice Rakower. LW! has been following the development of 50...
Appetite for the Appellate
LW! Lawyers Klein/Slowik head back to court. Mark your calendars, this Wednesday April 6th, 2022! You can tune in to hear both sides of the multi-faceted complaint against 50 West 66th Street as it is argued at the New York State Appellate Division, First Department...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
