55th Street is a two-mile-long, one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.
55th Street (Manhattan)
Image of W 55th Street Sign at the intersection of W 55th and 5th Ave
The London Hotel seen from 54th St
Harbor View Terrace, public housing
550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37-story office tower with a facade made of pink granite. It was completed in 1984 as the headquarters of AT&T Corp. and later became the American headquarters of Sony. A four-story granite annex to the west was demolished and replaced with a shorter annex in the early 2020s.
Seen in 2007
Looking west from 56th Street, with the atrium at center
Tall rectangular windows on the lower section of the facade along Madison Avenue
Main entrance