Metropolitan Life North Building

The Metropolitan Life North Building, now known as Eleven Madison, is a 30-story Art Deco skyscraper adjacent to Madison Square Park at 11-25 Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is bordered by East 24th Street, Madison Avenue, East 25th Street and Park Avenue South, and was formerly connected by a sky bridge and tunnel to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower just south of it.

"Eleven Madison" redirects here. For the restaurant, see Eleven Madison Park.

Metropolitan Life North Building

11 Madison Avenue
New Sony Building
25 Madison Avenue

11-25 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10010

40°44′30″N 73°59′12″W / 40.74167°N 73.98667°W / 40.74167; -73.98667

1928

1950

451 ft (137 m)

2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m²)

Harvey Wiley Corbett and D. Everett Waid

The North Building was built in three stages on the site of the second Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Construction started in 1929, just before the onset of the Great Depression. Originally planned to be 100 stories, the North Building was never completed as originally planned due to funding problems following the Depression. The current design was constructed in three stages through 1950. As part of the Metropolitan Life Home Office Complex, the North Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1996.^[1]

Tenants[edit]

SL Green Realty Corp has owned 11 Madison Avenue since 2015.^[32]^[33] The primary tenant is Credit Suisse.^[34] Additionally, Yelp, Inc.^[35] and several Sony companies such as Sony Corporation of America, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony Music Publishing occupy the building.^[36]

The restaurant Eleven Madison Park is at street level on the Madison Avenue side of the building.^[10] The restaurant, which opened in 1998,^[37] offers a vegan multi-course tasting menu.^[38]

The building previously served as Met Life's records warehouse.^[23]

The 1981 thriller used the building's lobby as the place where William Hurt's character was employed as a janitor, and where the brutal murder that begins the film takes place. Other scenes from the film were shot there as well.^[39]

Eyewitness

Director used the building as the location for Griffin Dunne's office in the 1985 film After Hours.^[39]

Martin Scorsese

's 1986 Radio Days utilized the North Building for the building where the offices of a broadcasting network were located.^[39]

Woody Allen

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New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture

Waid, D. Everett; Corbett, Harvey Wiley (2003) [First published 1933]. "Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: New Home Office Building in New York". In Shepherd, Roger (ed.). . New York, US: McGraw-Hill. pp. 277–279. ISBN 0071369708.

Metropolitan Life North Building