New York City Skyscrapers

55 Water Street is a 687ft (209m) tall skyscraper in New York City. It was completed in 1972 and has 53 floors. Emery Roth & Sons designed the building, which is tied with 277 Park Avenue as the 40th tallest building in New York City. When it was completed it was the largest office building in the world, and is still the largest in New York by floor area. The Sears Tower in Chicago is the only building in the United States with a bigger floor area.

56 Leonard Street is a 796ft (243m) tall skyscraper under construction (on hold) in New York City, New York. It is designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and will be located on Leonard Street (Manhattan) in Tribeca and have 58 floors. The building is described by the architects as "houses stacked in the sky." In January 2009, skyscraperpage.com has noted that construction of the building has been suspended, due to financial problems.

Formerly the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue is a 603 feet (184 m) tall skyscraper at the corner of 57th street in New York City, New York. It was completed in 1983 and has 41 floors. The building cost US$10 million, has 93,592 square metres (1,007,420 sq ft) of floor area, has 24 elevators, and is the 81st tallest building in New York. Edward Larrabee Barnes & Associates designed the building, and IBM developed it. IBM sold the tower to E.J. Minskoff Equities Inc in 1994.

599 Lexington Avenue is a 653ft (199m) tall, 50-story skyscraper in New York City, New York designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. It was the first building constructed by Mortimer Zuckerman and his company Boston Properties in New York City. The site was acquired for $84 million in 1984, and completed in 1986. It is the 52nd tallest building in New York City. The lobby contains Frank Stella's Salto nel Mio Sacco.

60 Wall Street is a 55-story skyscraper (745 feet, 227 meters) in Lower Manhattan, which currently serves as the American headquarters of Deutsche Bank. Built between 1987 and 1989 as the headquarters for J.P. Morgan & Co. (now absorbed into JPMorgan Chase), the tower has over 1.7 million square feet (160,000 m²) of office space. Completed in 1989, 60 Wall Street was the largest corporate building to be built in the Financial District.

666 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in New York City. The Tishman family via Tishman Realty and Construction built the 1,500,000-square-foot (139,000 m) tower in 1957. It was designed by Carson & Lundin and the building was called the Tishman Building. One of its most famous exterior features was the prominent 666 address emblazoned on the top of the building. The other distinctive exterior features are embossed aluminum panels.

7 World Trade Center is a building in New York City located across from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. The name "7 World Trade Center" has referred to two buildings: the original structure, completed in 1987, and the current structure. The original building was destroyed on September 11, 2001, and replaced with the new 7 World Trade Center, which opened in 2006.

712 5th Avenue is a 650ft (198m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York. It was constructed from 1990 to 1991. It is the 53rd tallest building in New York City. The towers design had to accommodate the landmarked façades of the Coty and Rizzoli buildings at the base of the tower.

750 Seventh Avenue is a 615ft (187m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York. It was completed in 1989 and has 36 floors. Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associate designed the building, and it is owned by Hines. The building's continuous helix design, culminating in a chimney-like extension, was caused by the New York City Building Code, which requires setbacks. The 84 exterior column transfers exist because of the owner's requirement for a column-free space.

80 South Street was a residential skyscraper proposed for construction in New York City. The building was planned for construction in Lower Manhattan, and designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. However, the project was canceled on April 16, 2008 in the wake of a declining real estate market. The design of the building consisted of 12 four-storey cubes stacked on top of one another, cantilevered off a central concrete column standing above an 8-storey base.