The United Nations at 50: the Zeckendorf connection. (United Nations building; real estate developer William Zeckendorf Sr.)

From: Real Estate Weekly | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Among the photographs and architectural renderings hanging on William Zeckendorf Jr.'s Midtown office is a glass-encased, slightly-worn and crinkled, 48-year old, block-by-block plot plan.

It's of a nine-acre tract running from 42nd to 49th Streets between First Avenue and the East River Drive. "The map was a memento given to my father the night, back in December '46, he was told the Rockefellers would accept his United Nations land offer," recalls his son, himself a developer of such mega-projects as the International Trade & Cultural Center in Washington DC. "There's ...

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