Editing Chrysler Building (section)

== Site ==
The Chrysler Building is on the eastern side of [[Lexington Avenue]] between [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd]] and 43rd streets in [[Midtown Manhattan]] in New York City.<ref name="AIA5 p. 315">{{Cite aia5|page=315}}</ref> The land was donated to [[Cooper Union|The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art]] in 1902.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 15, 2004|title=Cooper Union and Chrysler Building|url=http://www.cooper.edu/cubuilds/news_20040818.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708221034/http://www.cooper.edu/cubuilds/news_20040818.html|archive-date=July 8, 2010|access-date=September 27, 2010|publisher=Cooper Union}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gregor|first=Alison|date=February 13, 2008|title=Smart Land Deals as a Cornerstone of Free Tuition|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/13cooper.html|access-date=February 15, 2016|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The site is roughly a [[trapezoid]] with a {{convert|201|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} [[frontage]] on Lexington Avenue; a {{convert|167|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} frontage on 42nd Street; and a {{convert|205|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} frontage on 43rd Street.<ref name="NYTimes-Chrysler-Plans-1928">{{Cite news|date=October 17, 1928|title=Chrysler Plans 68-Story Building in Midtown; $14,000,000 Edifice to Top Woolworth Tower|work=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/10/17/118344646.pdf|access-date=November 2, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The site bordered the old [[Boston Post Road]],<ref>{{cite web|date=October 7, 2006|title=Open House New York 2006|url=http://forgotten-ny.com/2006/10/open-house-new-york-2006/|access-date=November 4, 2017|website=Forgotten New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=The Chrysler Building | publisher=Chrysler Tower Corporation | year=1930 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYOGWG1d064C | access-date=September 28, 2024 | page=4}}</ref> which predated, and ran aslant of, the Manhattan street grid established by the [[Commissioners' Plan of 1811]]. As a result, the east side of the building's base is similarly aslant.<ref>{{cite book|last=Walsh|first=Kevin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViZNSexza6MC|title=Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2006|isbn=978-0-06-114502-5|page=171|access-date=November 2, 2017}}</ref> The building is assigned its own [[ZIP Code]], 10174. It is one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that have their own ZIP Codes, {{as of|2019|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web | last=Brown | first=Nicole | title=Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious | website=amNewYork | date=March 18, 2019 | url=https://www.amny.com/news/nyc-zip-codes-1-28558957/ | access-date=July 8, 2022}}</ref>

The [[Grand Hyatt New York]] hotel and the [[Graybar Building]] are across Lexington Avenue, while the [[Socony–Mobil Building]] is across 42nd Street. In addition, the [[Chanin Building]] is to the southwest, diagonally across Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street.<ref name="AIA5 p. 315" />