The Lipstick Building, also known as 885 Third Avenue and 53rd at Third, is a 453-foot-tall (138 m) office building at Third Avenue between 53rd Street and 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors. The building was designed by John Burgee and Philip Johnson for Hines Interests and was developer Gerald D. Hines's first project in New York City. The building's nickname is derived from its shape and color, which resembles a tube of lipstick.
The building has a nearly elliptical massing, with setbacks above the 19th and 27th stories, as well as a two-story granite penthouse. The structure is actually polygonal; both the base and the setback sections have over a hundred sides. The building stands on double-height columns at the base, and the facade is made of red Imperial granite and stainless steel. On the northeast side of the building is a nine-story-tall rectangular annex. The building has 580,000 square feet (54,000 m2) of rentable space, some of which was built in exchange for improvements to the Lexington Avenue/51st Street station. To brace the building against winds from the north, structural engineer Irwin Cantor designed a tube support system and a central core for the building's superstructure.
Hines Interests bought the site from Citigroup in 1981 and hired Burgee and Johnson to design an elliptical office building for the site. Construction started in May 1984 and the building was completed two years later. In the first several years of the building's history, the office space was generally profitable. Hines sold the building in 2004 to Tishman Speyer, which resold a partial stake to Prudential Real Estate Investors. Metropolitan 885 Third Avenue LLC then acquired the building in 2007 under a complex financing agreement in which the underlying land was sold separately to SL Green. After Metropolitan went bankrupt in 2010, Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima and Marciano Investment Group assumed ownership. Ceruzzi Properties and SMI USA acquired the land in 2015, and SL Green took over the building in 2021.
The LipstickBuilding, also known as 885 Third Avenue and 53rd at Third, is a 453-foot-tall (138 m) office building at Third Avenue between 53rd Street...
the crimes in 1946. Heirens was called the Lipstick Killer after a notorious message scrawled in lipstick at a crime scene. At the time of his death,...
On a daily basis, DiPascali and his team on the 17th floor of the LipstickBuilding, where the scam was based (Madoff's brokerage was based on the 19th...
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elliptical LipstickBuilding at 885 Third Avenue in New York, nicknamed because of its resemblance to the color and shape of a stick of lipstick. A feud...
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35% stake in the LipstickBuilding in 2011. Bernie Madoff's brokerage firm's offices were on the 19th floor of the LipstickBuilding. For Semyon Vainshtok...
including New York's LipstickBuilding, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the 48-story Condé Nast Building, the 45-story Bear Stearns Building, and the Arthur...
2000 hotel rooms in New York City. IRSA bought 30% of New York's LipstickBuilding (885 Third Avenue) in 2007, and in November 2010 increased his stake...
of the LAPD stated publicly that he believed the Black Dahlia and the "Lipstick Murders" in Chicago were "likely connected". Among the evidence cited is...
Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The main plot focuses on a...
($531 million in 2023). The business occupied three floors of the LipstickBuilding in Manhattan, with the investment management division on the 17th...
Lipstick Lounge, also known as The Lip, is a bar in East Nashville, Tennessee in the United States, co-owned by Christa Suppan and Jonda Valentine. While...
and the Seagram Building to the southwest, 399 Park Avenue to the west, the Central Synagogue to the northwest, and the LipstickBuilding to the east. The...
Sterling assisted Madoff with securing office space in Manhattan's LipstickBuilding. The Madoff's, Katz's, and Wilpon's were involved in several charities...
and Torchwood have replicated its functions in devices such as the sonic lipstick, sonic blaster, sonic probe, sonic modulator and sonic cane. The sonic...
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medical care. Levy had offices one floor below Madoff's in New York's LipstickBuilding. It was Levy who introduced high-profile investors to Madoff. Jeanne...
lunch club that occupied the 66th, 67th, and 68th floors of the Chrysler Building in New York City. At one time it was the highest lunch club in the world...
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