question: Which New York City skyscraper is taller, 245 Park Avenue or 1345 Avenue of the Americas?
answer: 245 Park Avenue
context: Title: 245 Park Avenue
  Passage: 245 Park Avenue (formerly American Tobacco Company Building, American Brands Building and Bear Stearns Building) is a 648-ft (198 m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York.  It was completed in 1967 and has 48 floors (1.7 million square feet).  Shreve, Lamb and Harmon designed the building.  The Building Owners and Managers Association awarded the 2000/2001 Pinnacle Award to 245 Park Avenue.  The site used to be occupied by the second Grand Central Palace exhibition hall, which was demolished in 1964 to make way for 245 Park Avenue.
  Title: 1345 Avenue of the Americas
  Passage: 1345 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the Alliance Bernstein Building, is a 625 ft (191m) tall skyscraper in New York City, New York.  Located on Sixth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets, the 50 story building was built by Fisher Brothers and completed in 1969.  Originally known as Burlington House, the building was designed by Emery Roth & Sons and is the 68th tallest in New York City.  It is an unrelieved slab structure in the International Style, sometimes referred to as "corporate" style, faced with dark glass.  Its small plaza is dominated by its sprinkling fountain like a dandelion seedhead.  It replaced the original Ziegfeld Theatre.
  Title: Park Avenue Tunnel (roadway)
  Passage: The Park Avenue Tunnel, also called the Murray Hill Tunnel, is a 1600 ft tunnel that passes under seven blocks of Park Avenue in Murray Hill, in the New York City borough of Manhattan.  Traffic currently goes northbound from 33rd Street toward the Park Avenue Viaduct.  The tunnel is under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Transportation, and carries one lane of northbound car traffic from East 33rd Street to East 40th Street; from 40th Street north, traffic must follow the Park Avenue Viaduct around Grand Central Terminal to 46th Street.  The vertical clearance is 8 ft .
  Title: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)
  Passage: The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola is a Roman Catholic parish church located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, administered by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).  The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church.  In 1898, permission to change the patron saint of the parish from St. Lawrence O’Toole to St. Ignatius of Loyola was granted by Rome.  The address is 980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10028.  The church on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 84th Street is part of a Jesuit complex on the block that includes Wallace Hall, the parish hall, beneath the church, the rectory at the midblock location on Park Avenue, the grade school of St. Ignatius's School on the north midblock location of 84th Street behind the church and the high school of Loyola School (also 980 Park Avenue) at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street.  In addition, another Jesuit high school, Regis High School (55 E 84th Street), occupies the midblock location on the north side of 84th Street.  The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.
  Title: 383 Madison Avenue
  Passage: 383 Madison Avenue is an office building owned and occupied by JP Morgan Chase in New York City on a full block bound by Madison Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue between East 46th and 47th Streets.  Formerly known as the Bear Stearns Building, it housed the world headquarters of the now-defunct Bear Stearns from the building's completion until Bear's collapse and sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2008.  The building now houses the New York offices for J.P. Morgan's investment banking division, which formerly occupied 277 Park Avenue.  Both 383 Madison and 277 Park are adjacent to JPMorgan Chase's world headquarters at 270 Park Avenue.
  Title: Grand Central Palace
  Passage: The Grand Central Palace was an exhibition hall in New York City.  Built in 1911, the 13-story building was located on Lexington Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets, occupying the air rights over the railroad tracks leading into Grand Central Terminal.  The Palace was designed by Warren and Wetmore and Reed and Stem, who had collaborated on Grand Central Terminal.  It replaced the original Grand Central Palace, built in 1893 on Lexington Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets and demolished by 1913 to make way for the Grand Central development after it had served as a temporary station during the building of the terminal.  The Palace was New York's main exposition hall until it closed in 1953.  Its location and the proximity of Grand Central Terminal spurred the construction of a hotel district in the area.  The new Grand Central Palace was demolished in 1964 to make way for 245 Park Avenue.
  Title: 345 Park Avenue
  Passage: 345 Park Avenue is a 634 ft skyscraper in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that occupies a full city block with the front on Park Avenue, the back on Lexington Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets.
  Title: 655 Park Avenue
  Passage: 655 Park Avenue is a Georgian-style co-op residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, located on Park Avenue between 67th Street and 68th Street, adjacent to the Park Avenue Armory.  It was developed in 1924 by Dwight P. Robinson & Company.  The building at 655 Park Avenue was designed by architects James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr., often referred to by the initials "J.E.R. Carpenter", and Mott B. Schmidt.  Carpenter is considered the leading architect for luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s, while Schmidt is known for his buildings in the American Georgian Classical style, including Sutton Place and houses for New York City's society figures and business elite.
  Title: Norman Thomas High School
  Passage: The Norman Thomas High School for Business and Commercial Education is a public high school in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City under the New York City Department of Education.  Formerly known as Central Commercial High School (CCHS), and before that, the Central School of Business and Arts, its former location was on 42nd Street in a structure constructed with a 20-story office building in the air rights above it.  It was renamed after Presbyterian minister and Socialist activist Norman Thomas and moved to occupy the first nine floors of 3 Park Avenue, a 42-story skyscraper on East 33rd Street at Park Avenue in 1975.
  Title: Park Avenue
  Passage: Park Avenue is a wide New York City boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the borough of Manhattan.  For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east.  Park Avenue's entire length was formerly called Fourth Avenue; the title still applies to the section between the Bowery and 14th Street.  Meanwhile, the section between 14th and 17th Street is called Union Square East, and between 17th and 32nd Streets, the name Park Avenue South is used.
citations: 245 Park Avenue 1345 Avenue of the Americas