NEW YORK | 270 Park Ave | 1,389 FT | 70 FLOORS

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Just to be sure, when is this building going to be completely demolished?

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A year or longer

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At the rate they’re going I’d say around two years, unless they start speeding up significantly

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It’ll probably be easier to tell once they finish wrecking the crown and get through 2-3 regular office floors

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So that means the new building is going to be completed sometime in the year 2026?

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Maybe 2027

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Ahh ok

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Park Ave. corner 47th Street showing 270 Park Ave., the Hotel Marguery. This double building was built about 1918 and annex built 1922.

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The steel and reinforced concrete structure of the new Union Carbide Building, during its construction, in this view looking southeast from R.C.A. Building observation deck spring 1959.

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Taken 2.22.20:

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B9RtGZjJoCi/

The Union Carbide Building ist the largest controlled building demolition in History.

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One Meridian Plaza was an ugly fatty, I’m glad it’s gone. Just unfortunate what happened

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Boxes disappearing is never that damaging to me, except for Deutsche Bank as it was one I liked, and the tragic circumstances that happened to the towers adjacent to it.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B9PTpx2gSgl/?igshid=1qf1ek2oy95zh

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I hope the next 270 Park sets the standard for the next midtown plateau the way this version did!!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FP9b1BQbt/

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