Arthur was born in Chicago and was the architect for the Empire State Building.

In the mid-1920’s, the Norcross Greeting Card Company, formed by Arthur Norcross, was located at 244 Madison Ave. The company name on its letterhead was simply Norcross, and its areas of business listed as Publishing and Advertising. Mr. Norcross, his wife June, and apparently at least one child, a daughter, were active not only in the management of the company, but also in the design and selection of its cards. Among its many other distinctions, Norcross is noted as the first commercial card company to produce Valentine’s Day cards.

Also, the poet Ogden Nash had an office here and even penned Spring Comes to Murray Hill, a poem mentioning our building:

“I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue
And say to myself You have a responsible job havenue?
Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel?
If you have a sore throat you can cure it by using a good goggeral,
If you have a sore foot you can get it fixed by a chiropodist,
And you can get your original sin removed by St. John the Bopodist,
Why then should this flocculent lassitude be incurable?
Kansas City, Kansas, proves that even Kansas City needn’t always be
Missourible.

Up up my soul! This inaction is abominable.
Perhaps it is the result of disturbances abdominable.
The pilgrims settled Massachusetts in 1620 when they landed on a
stone hummock.

Maybe if they were here now they would settle my stomach.
Oh, if I only had the wings of a bird
Instead of being confined on Madison Avenue I could soar in a jiffy to
Second or Third.”

Our 180 unit building stands 16 stories tall and 244 Madison Ave converted to a co-operative in 1984.