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Encyclopedia > Condé Nast Building
Condé Nast Building, seen from Empire State Building

The Condé Nast Building, officially Four Times Square, is a modern skyscraper in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. Located on Broadway between 42nd Street and 43rd, the structure was finished in 1999. The building stretches 48 stories to 809 ft (247 m) making it the 10th tallest building in New York City and the 38th tallest in the United States. The major office space tenants are magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Major retail tenants include ESPN Zone and Duane Reade. Download high resolution version (518x1728, 193 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (518x1728, 193 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Empire State Building lit up for Christmas ( More images of the building) The Empire State Building The Empire State Building, a 102-story Art Deco building in New York City, was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates and built in 1931. ... Taipei 101, the worlds tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise. ... Times Square Times Square is also the name of a station on the Detroit People Mover. ... View of Midtown from Empire State Building. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... For the film of this name, see 42nd Street (film). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ... A hardwood floor (parquet) is a popular feature in many houses. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... Condé Nast Publications Inc. ... Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates (a. ... ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios. ... Duane Reade is a chain of ubiquitous drugstores in New York City. ...


Four Times Square is owned by The Durst Organization. The architects were Fox & Fowle. The building contains 1.6 million square feet (150,000 m²) of floor space.

NASDAQ MarketSite at the bottom of the Condé Nast Building (Times Square, New York City) at night

NASDAQ's MarketSite is located at the northwest corner of the building. It is a seven-story cylindrical tower with a high-tech electronic display, providing market quotes, financial news and advertisements. The ground floor of the MarketSite contains a television studio with a wall of monitors and an arc of windows looking out onto Times Square. Download high resolution version (426x640, 120 KB)NASDAQ in Timesquare New York City. ... Download high resolution version (426x640, 120 KB)NASDAQ in Timesquare New York City. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night Financial reporters from major television news networks deliver live updates from the MarketSite Studio. ... Times Square Times Square is also the name of a station on the Detroit People Mover. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American electronic stock exchange. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night Financial reporters from major television news networks deliver live updates from the MarketSite Studio. ...


During 2002 and 2003, the existing radio antenna, built for Clear Channel Communications as a backup transmitter site for its four FM stations, was removed and replaced with a 300-foot (91 m) mast to support television and radio broadcasters who were displaced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Clear Channel Communications is a media company based in the United States of America. ... The twin towers, photographed from the west The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district. ...


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New York City has the most skyscrapers in the world — 45 buildings taller than 200 meters — for comparison, Hong Kong has 39 and Chicago 17. ...

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Empire State Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1489 words)
The building rises to 1,250 feet or 381 m at the 102nd floor, and the full structural height (including the broadcast antenna) reaches 1,472 feet or 448 m.
The building stands on a block once occupied by the original Waldorf Hotel, a haven for The Four Hundred, the social elite of New York in the late 19th Century.
Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors, and eventually dies by falling off of it.
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