MiMA

MiMA is a rental apartment tower at 450 West 42nd Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, developed and managed by the Related Companies. The name is short for Middle of Manhattan, and the building’s base houses the Pershing Square Signature Center, the theater complex built for Signature Theatre Company, along with a hotel and a large residents’ club.

The tower stands between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, a block west of the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the A, C and E at 42nd Street. Times Square, Bryant Park and the Theater District are a short walk east, Hudson Yards and the High Line are to the south, and Ninth Avenue’s restaurant row runs alongside.

Completed in 2011 and designed by Arquitectonica, MiMA rises 63 stories above a base that fills much of its block. The Pershing Square Signature Center, designed by Frank Gehry, holds three stages for Signature Theatre Company, and the hotel in the complex is a Yotel, entered from Tenth Avenue. The combination makes MiMA one of the few residential towers in New York with a working theater complex under the same roof.

Its 663 rental apartments sit above the hotel and theaters, and the upper floors look east over Times Square and Midtown and west to the Hudson. For renters who work in the Theater District, at the Port Authority or around Hudson Yards, few buildings put more of Midtown within a short walk.