488 Madison Avenue is a 24-story, 447,000-square-foot, cake-like officer tower in midtown Manhattan, overlooking Saint Patricks Cathedral, erected in 1949 by Uris Buildings Corporation. In April 1953, Uris sold the building to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In the 1970s, an affiliate of the Feil Organization, a New York City-based real estate investment, development, and management firm, acquired the building in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Class A, modernist office building, located between 51st and 52nd Streets, was designated a landmark in 2010. Architecture firm Emery Roth & Sons designed the glazed white brick building, which is configured of round-edged layers, reminiscent of an ocean liner.
The building is also known as the Look Building, named after a now-defunct magazine of that name that was one of its first tenants. In the late 1990s, Feil Organization hired architects Hardy Holzman & Pfeiffer Associates to conduct a restoration of the faade. As of March 2015, tenants included Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, a law firm focused on media, entertainment, and advertising, Hahn & Hessen LLP, a law firm focused on the finance industry, and TBWA WORLDWIDE, an advertising agency that is a subsidiary of Omnicom Group.
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- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- neighborhood Plaza District
- borough Manhattan
- owner Feil Organization
- owner entity 488 MADISON AVE ASSOC
- sales/marketing Fiel Organization, Randall Briskin, Nicholas Forelli
- Year Built 1950
- square feet 391,114
- block and lot 1-01287-0014
- BIN 1035470
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- Event Retail Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 1,854
- Price per foot $ 400.00
- Publication Date 02/01/2019
- Event Date 01/31/2019
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 1 Brokerage Feil Organization
- Party 1 Broker Randall Briskin
- Party 2 Mephisto
- Party 2 Brokerage CBRE
- Party 2 Broker Amira Yunis, Anthony Stanford, Elliot Ferris
- Event Retail Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 1,697
- Publication Date 05/15/2018
- Event Date 03/01/2018
- Party 1 The Feil Organization
- Party 2 Indochino
- Party 2 Brokerage The Dartmouth Company
- Party 2 Broker Joe Mastromonaco, Fritz Kemerling
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Midtown
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 18,555
- Publication Date 12/01/2014
- Event Date 10/17/2014
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 2 Lagardère Unlimited Americas
- Party 2 Brokerage Cushman & Wakefield
- Party 2 Broker David Stockel, John Picco, Peter Van Duyne
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 10,311
- Publication Date 01/01/2013
- Event Date 11/22/2012
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 2 Grassi & Company
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 107,308
- Publication Date 03/01/2012
- Event Date 01/21/2012
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 1 Brokerage In-house
- Party 2 TBWA Worldwide
- Party 2 Brokerage Feld Real Estate
- Party 2 Broker Lee Feld
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 7,360
- Publication Date 12/01/2011
- Event Date 10/22/2011
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 1 Brokerage CBRE
- Party 1 Broker Paul Haskin
- Party 2 Crowe Horwath
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 14,054
- Publication Date 05/01/2011
- Event Date 03/22/2011
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 1 Brokerage Feil Organization
- Party 1 Broker Brian Feil
- Party 2 Manhattan Valley Capital
- Party 2 Brokerage Dakota Realty
- Party 2 Broker Jay Futersak
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 10,360
- Publication Date 07/01/2008
- Event Date 05/22/2008
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 1 Brokerage Juster Realty Group
- Party 2 Conduit Capital Partners
- Party 2 Brokerage Savills Studley
- Party 2 Broker Greg Taubin
- Event Office Leasing
- Address 488 Madison Avenue
- Neighborhood Plaza District
- Borough Manhattan
- Square feet 6,000
- Publication Date 07/01/2004
- Event Date 05/22/2004
- Party 1 Feil Organization
- Party 2 Party Basket Enterprises