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The New York Life Building is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company at 51 Madison Avenue in the Rose Hill and NoMad neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.
The New York Life Insurance Building sits on nearly two acres and has an exterior comprised of 440,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone – the largest order of exterior stone, and more than twice the amount ever utilized in a single American building, in 1928.
The site where the New York Life Building currently stands — at 51 Madison Avenue — possessed great historical significance even before New York Life’s arrival. From the 1850s–1871, the site was home to a passenger station for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
In 1923 the board of directors approved the establishment of a building committee to erect a new Home Office on the site of the original Madison Square Garden located on the corner of 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
The site on which New York Life stands has a colorful history, beginning with the New York terminal of the New York and Harlem Railroad, followed by Gilmore’s Garden (an open-air arena), P.T. Barnum’s Hippodrome, and finally the first two incarnations of the original Madison Square Garden.
In honor of New York Life celebrating 175 years in 2020, the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership looks back on the great historical significance of 51 Madison Avenue, the site for the iconic, gold-topped New York Life Building.
The New York Life Building is an amazing skyscraper located on 51 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. It borders Madison Square Park, a 6.2 acres (2.5 hectares) public park that opened in 1844, at its western tip. The building takes up an entire city block in the Rose Hill and NoMad neighborhoods of Manhattan.
New York Life Building. New York, NY. The high-rise at 51 Madison Avenue was constructed between 1926 and 1928 as the new headquarters for the New York Life Insurance Company.
The thirty-four story New York Life Building is Gilbert’s third and final version of the neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City, following his successful use of the style for the West Street Building (1905-1907) and the Woolworth Building (1910-1913).
New York Life Building Project Overview This project rejuvenated an 1888 Italian Renaissance office building that was noted as the “first skyscraper” in Kansas City at ten stories, the first to use elevators, and the first to use steel design in its structure.