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The Ritz Tower is a luxury residential building at 465 Park Avenue on the corner of East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was built from 1925 to 1926 as an apartment hotel and was designed by Emery Roth and Thomas Hastings for journalist Arthur Brisbane, who was the developer. The Ritz Tower is about 541 feet (165 m) with 41 stories, making it the tallest residential building in New York City upon its completion. Because it was initially classified as an apartment hotel, the building was constructed to a greater height than was usually permitted. Its classically-inspired design contains numerous setbacks with balustrades, as well as windows with pilasters and pediments. The lower floors are highly ornamented, featuring sculpted putti and urns, as well as rusticated limestone blocks. The top of the tower has a pyramidal roof with a tall obelisk. The interior of the building uses rich material, such as parquet floors and wood-paneled walls, all part of Brisbane's desire to make the Ritz Tower the most sought-after apartment hotel in the city. The tower had no individual kitchens in any of the 400 units. Residents over the years have included many personalities associated with the media. When the Ritz Tower was constructed, it received critical acclaim from architectural writers. After the Ritz Tower opened on October 15, 1926, Brisbane contracted with the Ritz-Carlton Company to manage the building and the restaurants in it. Brisbane was soon unable to pay off the debt load and sold it to William Randolph Hearst, his longtime colleague and friend, in 1929. Hearst gave up the building to his bondholders in 1938 and the Ritz Tower became a housing cooperative in 1956. The retail space at the base has contained several restaurants and stores over the years, including Le Pavillon, one of the first authentic French restaurants in the U.S. In 2002, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Ritz Tower as a New York City landmark.

The Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) (Korean: 뉴욕한국문화원), a branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of South Korea, is a government institution supported by the Korean Consulate General. Inaugurated in December 1979, KCCNY works to establish and promote Korean culture and aesthetics in New York through diverse cultural and artistic activities including gallery exhibitions, performing arts concerts, film festivals, and educational programs. The current director is Yun Jeung Jo.

The Consulate General of Sweden is the diplomatic mission of Sweden in New York City. It is located at One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in Turtle Bay, Manhattan, near the headquarters of the United Nations.

The Lombardy Hotel is located at 111 East 56th Street (between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue) in the Midtown East neighborhood of New York City. The building was turned into a co-op in 1957. Built in the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress, silent film star Marion Davies, The Lombardy has been the New York residence of film stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Interior designer Robert Denning designed the hotel's lobby in the 1990s. The lobby was since renovated, but Robert Denning's personal apartment, where he lived till he died, is still as he designed it with a combined living and dining room, master bedroom suite and a guest bedroom. The hotel lobby was renovated in October 2012 as part of an ongoing restoration. The hallways were renovated in 2015 and units are consistently updated by individual owners. There are currently 160 studios, one, two and three-bedroom apartments in the hotel rental pool and additional units owned by permanent residents or used solely as second homes. Some apartments are available for sale which may be used as a residence or investment.

450 Park Avenue (also known as Franklin National Bank Building) is an office building on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The building has 33 floors and is 390 feet (120 m) tall. 450 Park Avenue has a steel skeleton with concrete floors. The exterior is dominated by black granite and glass. The building was designed by Emery Roth & Sons and developed by Peter Sharp. Adjacent to the building is a public plaza, a privately owned public space, with benches.

The Galleria is a mixed-use skyscraper at 115–119 East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. The Galleria was designed by David Kenneth Specter with associate architect Philip Birnbaum, and it measures 55 stories high, with a roof height of 544 feet (166 m). The building has an eight-story atrium wing facing south toward 57th Street, which has a granite facade and a sloping ceiling. Behind the atrium section is the residential tower, which faces 58th Street to the north; it features "winter garden" balconies enclosed by glass. The commercial section of the building spans 16 stories, while the residential portion, with 253 apartments, spans 38 stories. The top of the building includes a four-story penthouse initially built for the philanthropist Stewart Rawlings Mott, who never lived there. The Galleria was one of several large apartment buildings developed in the area following the implementation of the 1961 Zoning Resolution. Madison Equities proposed a mixed-use office and apartment building on 57th Street in early 1972, and it was completed in 1975. After the building went bankrupt, Morgan Guaranty bought the land and both parts of the building in August 1976 and sold off many of the remaining apartments. The building's atrium remained underused through the early 1980s. Through the 21st century, the Galleria continued to operate as a condominium building. Joseph Moinian acquired the Galleria's commercial condominium in 2002.

135 East 57th Street (also known as Tower 57) is a skyscraper at in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, it was built in 1987 and stands at the northwest corner of the intersection of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue. The building was constructed in a postmodern style, with Art Moderne influences, and measures 430 feet (130 m) tall with about 32 stories. The facade consists mostly of gray granite, and the massing or general shape consists of a high-rise shaft curving around a plaza at the street corner. The interior covers about 456,000 square feet (42,400 m2) and includes two retail basements, a neoclassical lobby, and offices above. 135 East 57th Street was developed by Madison Equities, which had also developed the Galleria immediately to the west. Although Madison Equities had leased the site from the Wallace family in 1972, work on the tower did not begin until 1985, amid legal disputes. The building was substantially completed in 1987, initially with an art and antiques dealership, Place des Antiquaires, in the basements. Though most of the office space was occupied by 1990, Madison Equities surrendered ownership to the holders of the building's mortgage loan in 1992. The Cohen Brothers group bought the building's leasehold in 1997 and renovated the lobby and plaza. TF Cornerstone acquired the building in 2025 and announced plans to convert it into apartments.

The Allerton Hotel for Women, today known as Renaissance New York Hotel 57, is a hotel located at 130 East 57th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is a seventeen-story brick, limestone, and terra cotta building designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon in 1920. It was built on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 57th Street by the Allerton House Company at a cost of $700,000. It originally had stores on its ground floor. The hotel intended to accommodate six hundred business and professional women and also shelter young girls. When completed in 1923, the Allerton Hotel had room for four hundred tenants. Its occupancy was filled prior to completion and there was a long waiting list. After opening it was so popular that another establishment of its kind was anticipated.

590 Madison Avenue, also known as the IBM Building, is a skyscraper at 57th Street and Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and Associates the 41-story, 603-foot (184 m)-tall tower was developed for the technology company IBM and built from 1978 to 1983. The building is shaped like an irregular pentagon, with a chamfer cutting diagonally across what would typically be the southwest corner of a rectangular slab. The facade is made of gray-green glass and polished granite, which Barnes intended would give the building the appearance of a prism. The northeast corner of the tower is cantilevered over the main entrance, and there are no setbacks throughout the building's height. Adjacent to 590 Madison Avenue's southwest corner is a privately owned public space covered by a glass structure, which contains chairs, tables, and bamboo trees. From 1938 to 1964, IBM was headquartered at one of the previous structures on the site. Despite relocating its headquarters to a suburb of New York City, IBM retained office space at multiple locations in the city and proposed the current skyscraper to consolidate some of its operations. IBM owned the tower until May 1994, when it sold the building to Edward J. Minskoff and Odyssey Partners. Until the sale, IBM occupied most of the building's space; the firm continues to maintain offices in the building, though most space has been leased to other tenants.

The Charles Egan Gallery opened at 63 East 57th Street (Manhattan) in about 1945, when Charles Egan was in his mid-30s. Egan's artists helped him fix up the gallery: "Isamu Noguchi did the lighting... Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline painted the walls."A group show the next year included works by de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Paul Klee and Georges Braque.

Four Seasons Hotel New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that opened in 1993. The Ty Warner Penthouse Suite, billed at US$60,000 per night, is listed at number 3 on the World's 15 most expensive hotel suites compiled by CNN Go in 2012.

The Drake Hotel was a hotel at 440 Park Avenue and 56th Street, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1926 by Bing & Bing, it contained 495 rooms across 21 floors. It was sold in 2006 and demolished to make way for a residential skyscraper called 432 Park Avenue.