Olympic Tower is a 51-story, 620 ft-tall (190 m) building at 641 and 645 Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the mixed-use development contains condominium apartments, office space, and retail shops. The tower is named after Olympic Airways, whose president Aristotle Onassis jointly developed the tower with the Arlen Realty and Development Corporation between 1971 and 1974. It was the first skyscraper to be constructed within a special zoning district to encourage retail and mixed-use development along Fifth Avenue.
Olympic Tower
Atrium interior
Seen in the background with St. Patrick's Cathedral at right
Seen from the base
51st Street is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.
Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea, located on 51st Street west of 2nd Avenue
Sutton Place Synagogue (Jewish Center for the United Nations)
Greenacre Park
Venezuela consulate (left) and John Peirce Residence (right)