Diplomat Centre
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
Second Avenue, 820
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200-foot, 19-story early-modern office building completed in 1964. Designed by Henry George Greene, it is clad in white metal panels, glass, and steel mullions. The ground floor is clad in black granite. The east facade on the avenue is divided into four bays, with plate-glass storefronts in the northern three, and the main entrance in the south bay. It has two sets of glass double-doors is a glass surround, covered by a steel canopy. The ground floor on the north facade on 44th Street has two more wide storefront bays, and a narrower one on the east, next to an end bay with a loading dock and steel service door.
At the upper floors, the vertical steel mullions dividing the bays are white-colored and in set into the facade. Each bay has three square glass panes with dark grey-green metal framing. The metal spandrel panels are lighter grey, and at the end of each floor is a dark-green metal panel. The west facade is eight bays wide, and the north has seven. The five northern bays on the east facade set back above the 11th floor, as do the four western bays of the north facade. Both facades then have terraced setbacks cascading every two floors to the roof.
Consistent with its name this building is mostly home to various foreign consulates & permanent diplomatic missions to the near-by United Nations. The ground floor is occupied by Fresh Food Center, and a Hallmark store.
At the upper floors, the vertical steel mullions dividing the bays are white-colored and in set into the facade. Each bay has three square glass panes with dark grey-green metal framing. The metal spandrel panels are lighter grey, and at the end of each floor is a dark-green metal panel. The west facade is eight bays wide, and the north has seven. The five northern bays on the east facade set back above the 11th floor, as do the four western bays of the north facade. Both facades then have terraced setbacks cascading every two floors to the roof.
Consistent with its name this building is mostly home to various foreign consulates & permanent diplomatic missions to the near-by United Nations. The ground floor is occupied by Fresh Food Center, and a Hallmark store.
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Coordinates: 40°45'2"N 73°58'15"W
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