The CBS Building is a 38-story, 491-foot-tall (150 m) tower at 51 West 52nd Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the headquarters of the CBS broadcasting network. The building was constructed from 1961 to 1964 and was the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, who referred to the building as the "simplest skyscraper statement in New York". The interior spaces and furnishings were designed by Saarinen, then Florence Knoll Bassett after the former's death. The building was also the headquarters of CBS Records before the early 1990s.
CBS Building
The Sixth Avenue side was originally designed without entrances.
The CBS Building, seen from the corner of Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street
Recessed plaza surrounding the building
52nd Street is a 1.9-mile-long (3.1 km) one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. A short section of it was known as the city's center of jazz performance from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The theatres of 52nd Street in 2007
Looking east from 6th Avenue, 52nd Street at night (May 1948); photo by William P. Gottlieb
The south side of 52nd Street, between 5th & 6th Avenues – looking east from 6th Avenue (c. 1948); photo by William P. Gottlieb
"Swing Street" street sign
