Capital Cities/ABC — 147 Columbus Avenue
Joseph's final ABC entry appears to catch the network in motion: a December 1990 architecture article announced the ten-story 147 Columbus Avenue building just as construction was about to begin.
A before-demolition photograph of the building itself.
Undated · Image: OptimalSpaces (Google street image) · Reuse terms not verified. · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Very strong
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: American Broadcasting Company — 1990
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“American Broadcasting Company — 1990”
NYCEDC records the ABC project at 147 Columbus Avenue starting March 8, 1991; period architecture press was already describing it as 'to be built' in December 1990.
One of the final projects on the family list, tied to Capital Cities/ABC’s large Upper West Side campus expansion.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Strong
Likely exterior brick masonry/infill/veneer plus CMU backup, shafts and service walls in KPF's ten-story brick-and-glass ABC building.
This scope is recorded as strong, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.
The construction team
- 01Architect
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
What happened to it
Demolished in 2026 / former ABC-Disney campus redevelopment site
The former ABC campus is being redeveloped by Extell. In April 2026, plans were filed for an 86-story residential tower of nearly 1,200 feet with 430 apartments at 80 West 67th Street on the former campus.
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01usmodernist.org
A 1990 12
- 02nyc.gov
26 30 West 67th Street
- 03optimalspaces.com
alquilar oficina 147 columbus avenue
- Unattributed · Reuse terms not verified · OptimalSpaces / Google street image
147 Columbus Avenue photographed before its demolition.
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