1095 Avenue of the Americas is a fascinating, half-baffling part of New York's green scene -- either sublimely Buddha-nature or just plain lazy or something else entirely, it's a tough building to figure. The Blackstone Group, which owns 1095 Avenue of the Americas, put the place through a $408.9 million facelift, with the result being a newly attractive and very green office tower. And yet, despite being located across the street from a natural rival in the LEED Platinum showcase that is the Bank of America Building, the Blackstone Group declined to pursue any green recognition for the onetime Verizon Building. Which, you know, good for them. Go your own way, The Blackstone Group/1095 Avenue of the Americas. But while 1095 has recently had a notably hard time of it rent-wise, a half-ironic chapter of 1095's history has belatedly been written.
