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1221 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the McGraw-Hill Building, is a skyscraper built in 1969, located at 1221 Sixth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City. It is the third building in Manhattan to have the McGraw-Hill name, and is one of several buildings that were part of the Rockefeller Center complex expansion in the 1960s. It is high and 51 stories. The building is the former headquarters of McGraw-Hill Financial, from which it derived its name.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/07/08/mcgraw-hill-moves-downtown-says-goodbye-to-namesake-building/ )〕 Other tenants include Sirius XM Radio, whose headquarters and broadcast facility are in the building. The expansion consisted of the three buildings collectively known as the "XYZ Buildings," each with similar slab-like massing, of different heights and designed by Wallace Harrison's firm. The sunken courtyard of this building contains a large metal triangle designed by Athelstan Spilhaus and fabricated by Tyler Elevator Products, arranged so the Sun aligns with its sides at solstices and equinoxes.〔(Natural History Magazine ) Sun triangle〕 When built, the south-western corner held a display of scale models of planets in the Solar System. A mosaic map of the Earth survives in the north-western corner. ==1999 elevator incident== After entering an express elevator at approximately 11:00 p.m. on October 15, 1999, Nicholas White, an employee of the building, became trapped after a brief power dip caused the elevator to stop between the 13th and 14th floors. Despite signaling an alarm and surveillance video being inside the elevator cab, White was not rescued until approximately 4:00 p.m. on October 17, nearly 41 hours later, after security guards spotted him in the surveillance cameras 〔Tierney, John. ("The Big City; Aftermath Of 40 Hours In an Elevator" ), ''The New York Times'', October 28, 1999. Accessed October 4, 2008.〕〔(Ups and downs of elevators ) The New Yorker〕 On April 14, 2008, ''The New Yorker'' uploaded a 3-minute, 11 second-long video to YouTube, accompanied by Jennifer Haines's ''The Storm Begins'', originally titled ''Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours''. The video is a sped up version of White's time in the elevator and also shows the surveillance footage from the other three elevators. On April 21, 2008, the magazine wrote a full detailed story on White's experience in the elevator, by Nick Paumgarten, who titled it ''Up and Then Down''. As of April 2015, the video currently has more than 8.5 million views. After the video went viral, Nicholas White was interviewed on ''Good Morning America'' and also spoke to the Associated Press. In his interviews. he talked about the horrific ordeal that he went through〔(''Elevator Hell: Nicolas White trapped for 41 Hours'' )〕 and revealed that he still takes elevators, jokingly saying that because he still lives in Manhattan it would be impossible for him to not use them.〔(''Nicholas White Talks About His Experience' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1221 Avenue of the Americas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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