The United Nations

T United Nations, 1 Avenue 46 Street. Offers p overlooking E River tours general assembly secretariat

T United Nations Headquarters distinctive complex N Y Cy served headquarters United Nations since completion 1950. I located Turtle By neighborhood, Midtown Manhattan, spacious grounds overlooking E River. Though N Y City, occupied y United Nations Headquarters considered "international territory", borders First Avenue west, E 42 Street south, E 48 Street north E River . FDR Drive passes underneath Conference Building complex.

T United Nations Headquarters constructed N Y Cy 1949 1950 beside E River, seventeen acres purchased foremost N Y estate developer time, William Zeckendorf. T purchase arranged y Nelson Rockefeller, after initial offer placing Rockefeller family estate Kykuit rejected being isolated Manhattan. T $8.5million purchase funded y father, J D. Rockefeller, J., donated Cy. T architect building estate Wallace Harrison, personal architectural adviser family.