The Chanin Building, also known as 122 East 42nd Street, is a 56-story office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. It is on the southwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexingto
The Chanin Building as seen in 2025
Lower section of the facade, as seen from across 42nd Street; the Socony-Mobil Building is visible at left
Designed by Rene Paul Chambellan, these gates led to the private offices of Irwin S. Chanin
Close-up of the embrasures at the Chanin Building's crenellated top
The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. It was founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of
Chanin Building
…building was owned by a syndicate headed by Stanley Stahl. Modern tenants include Apple Bank, of which Stahl was the only stockholder, as well as the International Rescue Committee, which had moved to the building in 1994. Shortly after the building's completion, architectural critic Matlack Price wrote in an Architectural Forum…
The headquarters of the IRC are located within the Chanin Building in New York
Foreign Secretary William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at Nzolo displacement camp, near Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 March 2013, meeting refugees and the International Rescue Committee
Yazidi refugees from Iraq receive aid from the IRC at Newroz camp, Syria, 13 August 2014
An IRC doctor conducting a check-up on a young Syrian refugee, Ramtha, Jordan, 28 August 2013