101 Park Avenue is a tall

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at 41st Street and

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in the Murray Hill neighborhood of

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, New York. It was completed in 1979 to 1982 and has 49 floors. Eli Attia Architects designed the tower. The building contains the Museum of the Dog. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10178; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes .

In popular culture

It was used as the facade of the fictional "Pemrose building" in the 1987 film '' The Secret of My Success'', as well as the fictional "Clamp Tower" in the 1990 film '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch''. The building features in the 1991 Jeff Bridges film ''

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'', and is shown as the site of

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's office in a few ninth-season episodes of ''

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'', as well as Dudley Moore's character's office in the film ''

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''. ''

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'' used the building several times including as IFT Headquarters in season one. It is also featured as a crash site in the 2012 film '' The Avengers''. It was used for a brief exit shot in the 2012 Richard Gere film ''Arbitrage''. Most recently it was featured as the office in the 2019 film ''Isn’t It Romantic''. The buildings roof was used in the 1985 second season feature length opener of Miami Vice, where Crockett & Tubbs face a showdown with an NYPD hostile to their investigation into a powerful Colombian drug dealing syndicate operating in the city. It is also on the roof of this skyscraper that the final shots of the clip made for the piece '' Looking up'', by

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, were shot.

Notable tenants

* Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle *

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* Mannheimer Swartling * Morgan, Lewis & Bockius *

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Headquarters in North-America *

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(formerly Booz & Company) *

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(North American HQ) *

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