Building Specifications
Building
- 2.1 Million Square Feet
- 43 Above Grade Floors
- 2 Below Grade Levels
Location
The block between 51st and 52nd street, along the eastern side of the Avenue of the Americas.
Year Built
1963
Floor Sizes
26,000–100,000 SF
Outdoor Space
48,000 RSF
Slab Height
12'
Air Conditioning
The central plant is located in the subcellar, two levels below grade. Chilled water for air conditioning is generated by one 3,420 ton and one 2,800 ton York centrifugal chillers directly driven by steam turbines and a 1,000 ton electric chiller. Floors are cooled by chiller water pumped to central air handler coils for the interior and perimeter systems.
Sustainability
Vornado has created industry-leading green cleaning and building-wide recycling and organics diversion programs. VNO has been collecting organics at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. The building’s overall diversion is currently at 55% and zero waste is being sent to a landfill as it is all being sent to a waste-to-energy plant.
EMERGENCY POWER
Two emergency generators are located at the premises:
- A 2000 KW generator is available to all building tenants for additional redundant power requirements
- A 765 KW life safety generator
Sprinklers
The building is fully sprinklered. The tank locations are on the 44th floor: (2) 7,000 gal tanks each with 4,500 fire reserve; and the 20th floor: 13,200 gal tank with 9,000 gal reserve.
Elevators
Passenger Cars: 32
Freight Cars: 2
Car/Truck Lifts: 2
SUSTAINABILITY At
1290 Avenue of the Americas
At Vornado, we believe that sustainability is based on the synergy of the built environment and the community. Using this approach, we work to improve efficiency and implement environmentally aware best practices at each property, maximizing the positive impact on our occupants, our community, and our business.
TENANT BENEFITS
Vornado is focused on tenant engagement: to support our tenants as they return to the office and to achieve their sustainability goals.
STAKEHOLDER PRIORITIES
- Stakeholder Annual Engagement through Roundtables, Building-Specific App, Events, and other programming
- LEED Credits available to Tenants
- Fitwel Credits available to Tenants
- Collaboration with tenants on the ENERGY STAR Tenant Space to track performance improvements
NEW YORK RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES FOR BUILDINGS ELECTRICITY*
Energy
Star Score
Leed
Certification
Organics
Program
Waste
Diversion Rate
Walk
Score
Bike
Score
*NYS HYDROELECTRIC RENEWABLE ENERGY CERTIFICATES
Live.Work.Do.
Designed exclusively by Vornado for our tenants, the LIVE.WORK.DO. app offers building information, transportation alerts, mobile building access, building safety alerts, among other amenities.
The DO. App Includes:
- Virtual access to provide seamless passage through the building turnstiles.
- Tools to order ahead, and restaurant reservations at a wide array of food and beverage providers.
- Push notifications for special events, building announcements and emergency awareness.
- Personalized transportation tracking.
- Visitor Registration and Service Requests.
Highly trained network, security, and electronic systems technicians are on staff, on call 24 hours a day to ensure all of the technology is operational and fully optimized.
