22 Vanderbilt

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305-foot, 28-story office building originally completed in 1913 as a hotel. Designed by Warren & Wetmore, it opened as the Biltmore Hotel. The landmark hotel was gutted down to its steel skeleton between 1981 and 1984 and rebuilt as a modern glass office tower to designs by Environetics Architects. The famous Biltmore clock mentioned in "Catcher in the Rye" was retained in the building's new atrium lobby as was its player piano. It was known for some time as Bank of America Plaza.

The west facade is organized into 11 bays, the south and north facades into 13 bays each, and the east facade into nine bays. Each facade is clad in brown polished granite dividing bays of smoked-glass windows. Granite spandrels separate each level on the lower three floors; the spandrels rise one floor higher at each bay moving inward, up to the 6th floor, above which only the vertical piers extend up the mechanical floor below the roof line. On the west and east facades, there is a setback above the 6th floor, while the middle bays recessed further back.

The ground floor on the south side contains subterranean entry to Grand Central Terminal through the Biltmore Room. The north side, now occupied by a parking garage, provided taxicab access from within the terminal.

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