Place
United Nations Headquarters
405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, USA
International enclave on the East River, home to the General Assembly and Security Council.
This guide to the United Nations Headquarters starts on an East River shoreline once nicknamed Blood Alley, then follows a near-miss: a planned real estate development called X City and a last-minute intervention that decided whether the UN would even end up in New York rather than Philadelphia. Developer William Zeckendorf, Nelson Rockefeller's negotiation, and the international team of architects who raised the campus between 1948 and 1952 all figure into it.
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