550 Madison Avenue
550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern–style skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S.Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Building
- Description: skyscraper in Manhattan, USA
- Also known as: “AT&T Building”, “Sony Building”, “Sony Plaza”, and “Sony Tower”
- Historically known as: “AT&T BUilding”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
Museum of Modern Art
Museum
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. Museum of Modern Art is situated 1,200 feet west of 550 Madison Avenue.
Trump Tower
Building
Photo: Urban, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trump Tower is a 58-story, 664-foot-tall mixed-use condominium skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets.
Carnegie Hall
Arts center
Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0.
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue at 881 Seventh Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by its namesake, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the venue is one of the most prestigious in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall is situated 2,200 feet northwest of 550 Madison Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diamond District and Theater District.
Diamond District
Neighborhood
Photo: ChrisRuvolo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A diamond district is an area where the cutting, polishing, and trade of diamonds and other gems takes place. There are a number of these districts around the world, including: It may also refer to Diamond District, an American hip-hop group formed by Oddisee, Uptown XO & Yu.
Theater District
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the Theater District is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.
Midtown East
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Midtown East is the core retail and commercial neighborhood of Manhattan, containing the highest concentration of business and money this side of, well, the planet.
550 Madison Avenue
- Category: skyscraper
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“550 Madison Avenue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “550 شارع ماديسون”
- Basque: “Sony Building”
- Chinese: “索尼大厦”
- Chinese: “麦迪逊大道550号”
- Czech: “AT&T Building”
- Czech: “Sony Building”
- Czech: “Sony Tower”
- Dutch: “550 Madison Avenue”
- Dutch: “Sony Building”
- Dutch: “Sony Tower”
- Egyptian Arabic: “550 شارع ماديسون”
- Estonian: “550 Madison Avenue”
- Finnish: “550 Madison Avenue”
- French: “Sony Tower”
- German: “550 Madison Avenue”
- German: “AT&T Building”
- German: “Sony Building”
- Hebrew: “בניין AT&T”
- Hebrew: “שדרות מדיסון 550”
- Italian: “Sony Building”
- Japanese: “ソニー・ビルディング”
- Japanese: “ソニービル”
- Japanese: “マディソンアベニュー550番地”
- Korean: “550 매디슨 애비뉴”
- Korean: “소니 빌딩”
- Persian: “برج سونی”
- Portuguese: “550 Madison Avenue”
- Portuguese: “Sony Building”
- Romanian: “Sony Building”
- Russian: “Сони-билдинг”
- Slovak: “Budova Sony”
- Slovenian: “550 Madison Avenue”
- Slovenian: “AT&T Building”
- Slovenian: “Sony Tower”
- Spanish: “550 Madison Avenue”
- Spanish: “AT&T Building”
- Spanish: “Sony Building”
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