1345 Avenue of the Americas

1345 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the AllianceBernstein Building and formerly the Burlington House) is a 625-foot (191 m)-tall, 50-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Located on Sixth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets, the building was built by Fisher Brothers and designed by Emery Roth & Sons. When completed in 1969, the building was originally named after Burlington Industries. 1345 Avenue of the Americas is an unrelieved slab structure in the International Style, sometimes referred to as "corporate" style, faced with dark glass. The building replaced the original Ziegfeld Theatre on the site. Its small plaza had two fountains on each street corner shaped like a dandelion seedheads, designed by Australian architect Robert Woodward in 1968. The fountains were of similar design to his 1961 El Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross, Sydney. The fountains were removed when the plaza was upgraded in 2019. In 2025, Blackstone Inc. offered to buy an ownership stake in 1345 Avenue of the Americas from Fisher Brothers, obtaining an $850 million mortgage loan to finance the purchase.