Report: United Nations to Move to 46th Street
The United Nations is moving at least 700 employees and 180,000 square feet of office space to 305 East 46th Street, according to a report in Real Estate Weekly.
A spokesman for the UN confirmed to Real Estate Weekly that the move will begin next year, as the famed UN Building undergoes an extensive renovation. The renovation of the building should last through 2015.
The UN employees will move into a 79-year-old building known as the Albano Building, which is just off Second Avenue and only blocks from its regular home. The UN's new home is a drab Class B building that needs an upgrade. The UN will foot the entire bill for all renovations.
The spokesman said it hasn't been determined which offices will move and which will stay during the six-year renovation. A source told Real Estate Weekly the rents for its new home will be under $50 per square foot, an inexpensive option during a time when Manhattan office rents are at all-time highs.
The spokesman said that the UN employees that relocate to East 46th Street are the “lucky ones because they only have to move once."
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Dog,
The Albano building is at 305 E 46th Street, not 36th Street. And it's not drab, it's downright crappy.
-Dog
The intention of the United Nations to relocate for the sake of innovation related to the current office building could be reviewed from different prespectives.The estimated cost of the project would hit the strained contributions coming to the orgnization.The duration of the innovation project that would run for several years would practiclly make "Null office" situation administrativly.The United Nations Could consider "shared global location" for it's Major branches and or adopt "the rotation system" for it's conferences.The United States of America still holds the prime postion of "chief contributor" to the orgnization.However The United Nations could consider decentiralization of its offices and services with out the obligation of making New York the center of the world or the Mecca of the interpretation of international diplomacy and conflicts,where millions of survivers look forward for a less talked about place in the search for the daily bread and the home.
i was told my second uncle lived at 305east46th street ny, emirgrating yrs ago from ireland, i would love to know if anyone that knows that building heard of a man called tom mc sherry, aka texas weston, his sons where named after u.s presidents, any info out there or advice, irish relative