135 East 57th Street on the northeast corner of 57th and Lexington is immortalized in American culture.
Built in 1987 by Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, it features 31 floors in a 430 foot grey granite tower that curves around an open public square on the corner.
Some say it was inspired by the London Guarantee Insurance building built in Chicago, in 1920.
I can see it.
The building is an extraordinary cash cow with retail rentals averaging a stunning $350 per square foot per year. The CHASE Bank which occupies the 6,240 square feet outlined above pays $2,184,000 per year for the privilege. No wonder their ATM’s charge you a buck to get to your own money.
But the real reason why this building has been a familiar image to people all over the world since 2002 is because it served as Norman Osborn’s (Willem Dafoe) OSCORP headquarters in Spiderman 2, the movie.
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