Manhattan · New York County
299 Park Avenue
POPS - Outdoor Plaza
- Location
- 299 Park Avenue, at East 49th Street, Midtown East
- Size
- 0.20 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Plaza
299 Park Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Park Avenue at 49th Street, one of the signature corporate plazas on Manhattan's most prestigious business boulevard.
The building at 299 Park Avenue, designed by Emery Roth and Sons, is a classic International Style office tower that exemplifies the corporate architecture of 1960s Park Avenue. The plaza serves the building's corporate tenants and the broader Midtown pedestrian population.
Park Avenue's corporate plazas, created through the incentive zoning program, collectively provide one of the most significant linear public space systems in Manhattan. The plazas between 45th and 57th Streets offer continuous outdoor seating along the avenue's eastern and western flanks.
The nearby Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (currently undergoing conversion to condominiums), St. Bartholomew's Church, and the Seagram Building with its iconic Mies van der Rohe plaza are all within walking distance, placing 299 Park Avenue in one of the richest architectural corridors in the world.
This plaza provides public space on the avenue where American corporate culture and modernist architecture achieved their most refined expression.