page_title: Madison Square and Madison Square Park
section_title: Current status
hierarchical_section_title: Madison Square and Madison Square Park / Current status
caption_attribution_description: English: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (also Met Life Tower) at One Madison Avenue, New York City was the world's tallest building from 1909 to 1913, when it was surpassed by the Woolworth Building. As the address suggests, it is located at the southern end of Madison Avenue, directly across the street from Madison Square Park. The building is a National Historic Landmark and was first added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 6, 1978. Later, the entire complex of buildings was added to the National Register on January 19, 1996. Madison Square Park Tower, previously 45 East 22nd Street, is, as of July 2017, a topped-out skyscraper located between Broadway and Park Avenue South in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan New York City. The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. When completed it will be the tallest building between Midtown and the Manhattan Financial District. It was the second skyscraper to be built on that block, the first being One Madison. One Madison, formerly "One Madison Park", is a luxury residential condominium tower located on 23rd Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, at the foot of Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. The building's private entrance, and address, will be at 23 East 22nd Street when construction of the lobby building is complete in Spring 2013. To the right of One Madison can be seen the Eternal Light Flagstaff in Madison Square Park, dedicated on Armistice Day 1923 and restored in 2002, which commemorates the return of American soldiers and sailors from World War I.
context_page_description: Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States. The focus of the square is Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre public park, which is bounded on the east by Madison Avenue; on the south by 23rd Street; on the north by 26th Street; and on the west by Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they cross.
  The park and the square are at the northern end of the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan. The neighborhood to the north and west of the park is NoMad and to the north and east is Rose Hill.
  Madison Square is probably best known around the world for providing the name of Madison Square Garden, a sports arena and its successor which were located just northeast of the park for 47 years, until 1925. The current Madison Square Garden, the fourth such building, is not in the area.
context_section_description: The names of the neighborhoods around Madison Square have changed frequently, and continue to do so.  Around the park and to the south is the Flatiron District, an area that, since the 1980s, has changed from a primarily commercial district with many photographer's studios—located there because of the relatively cheap rents—into a prime residential area. Rose Hill is to the north and east of the park, while NoMad is to the north and Chelsea is to the west. Within the area, Madison Avenue continues to be primarily a business district, while Broadway just north of the square holds many small "wholesale" and import shops. The area west of the square remains mostly commercial, but with many residential structures being built.
  In 1989, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission had created the Ladies' Mile Historic District to protect and preserve the area. Additionally, since 2001, the Madison Square North Historic District for the area north and west of the park, in the neighborhood that since 1999 has been referred to as NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park ").
caption: The Met Life Tower, with its landmark clock, and the residential skyscrapers Madison Square Park Tower, expected to open in 2018, and One Madison, which opened in 2013, rise over Madison Square Park.
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