Madison Avenue
North-south avenue in Manhattan
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| April 2025 |
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JPMorgan announced plans to convert the lobby into an open-air extension of the adjacent sidewalk.
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| March 2025 | Most employees of the Roosevelt Hotel are laid off following the shelter closure announcement. |
| February 2025 | Mayor Adams announces the closure of the migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel, scheduled for June, after processing over 173,000 migrants. |
| January 2025 |
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JPMorgan Chase hired Foster and Partners to design a renovation of 383 Madison Avenue.
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| 2024 | Celebrated 100th anniversary as a public institution. |
| 2024 | Museum staff discovered an unpublished waltz by Frédéric Chopin, dating from the 1830s, within the library's collection. |
| 2024 | Heiress Katharine Rayner donated $10 million to endow the director's position, which was renamed in her honor. |
| April 2024 | The migrant intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel has served 130,000 people. |
| February 2024 | Jones Lang LaSalle is selected as the real estate brokerage for the Roosevelt Hotel site by Pakistani officials. |
| January 2024 | The museum began offering free admission to college students on the first Sunday of each month. |
| 2023 | Began raising $50 million for its centennial, including $35 million for endowment and $15 million for capital improvements. |
| 2023 | The Morgan Library & Museum, along with several other institutions, surrendered seven Egon Schiele paintings after the New York County District Attorney determined they were looted from Fritz Grünbaum's collection during the Holocaust. |
| September 2023 | Pakistani officials review four proposals for the redevelopment of the Roosevelt Hotel. |
| May 15 2023 | New York City opens a welcome center at the Roosevelt Hotel for migrant housing, initially activating 175 rooms of a planned 850-room shelter, becoming the city's ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center. |
| January 2023 | Pakistani officials indicated they would not sell the hotel, instead planning to form a joint venture to operate it, with the hotel's future still uncertain due to ongoing legal issues. |
| 2022 | Final documented renovations were completed at the Morgan Library & Museum. |
| August 2022 | The Qatar Investment Authority expressed interest in purchasing a 25 percent stake in the hotel, which was denied by Pakistan's aviation minister. |
| June 2022 | New garden designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan opened to the public. |
| 2021 | Katapult, an ERA portfolio company, was acquired by a SPAC, achieving a $1 billion valuation and becoming publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker KPLT. |
| 2021 | TripleLift, another ERA portfolio company, sold a majority stake to Vista Equity Partners, valuing the company at $1.4 billion. |
| November 2021 | PIA began paying severance to approximately 500 furloughed workers after previous delays in payment. |
| 2020 | The Roosevelt Hotel closed due to financial losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, ERA conducted Demo Days online via live streamed videoconferences, adapting their traditional investor pitch event to the virtual format. |
| 2020 | Forbes 30 Under 30 - Retail & Ecommerce list featured Yuni Sameshima and Joey Petracca, cofounders of Chicory. |
| December 18 2020 | The Roosevelt Hotel officially closed, with the Pakistani Air Ministry refusing to disclose future plans for the property. |
| October 2020 | PIA announced the permanent closure of the Roosevelt Hotel due to continued financial losses from the pandemic. |
| September 2020 | Pakistan's Economic Coordination Council provided $142 million to the Roosevelt Hotel Corporation to settle outstanding debts and pay employee severance. |
| September 2020 | Museum reopened after COVID-19 pandemic closure. |
| July 2020 | Pakistan's Aviation Division officials indicated the hotel might close permanently in December, as it was losing $37 million annually. The Cabinet Committee on Privatization decided to run the hotel through a joint venture. |
| March 2020 | With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the Roosevelt Hotel's employees were furloughed and occupancy rates dropped significantly. |
| March 2020 | Museum temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 |
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When demolition of JPMorgan Chase's world headquarters at 270 Park Avenue commenced, the bank temporarily relocated its headquarters to 383 Madison Avenue.
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| 2019 | An Italian prosecutor claimed that the museum hosted a sacramentary stolen in 1925 from the municipality of Apiro. |
| 2019 | Fox Business News television broadcast an interview with the cofounders of With Clarity. |
| 2019 | Crain's New York Business magazine ranked ERA as the #1 most active venture capital firm in the New York metropolitan area, completing 27 investments and ranking fifth in funding round dollars with $47.2 million. |
| 2019 | Six ERA alumni companies made it onto Inc. Magazine's 5000 list, with Fund That Flip placing #42 with 3-year revenue growth of 6,018%. |
| February 2019 | Announced plans to renovate the main building's facade with Integrated Conservation Resources. |
| 2018 | PIA refinanced the Roosevelt, obtaining a $105 million mortgage loan from JPMorgan Chase. |
| 2018 | Young Alfred, a machine learning AI-powered licensed digital broker, received $10 million in funding a few months after graduating from the ERA winter 2018 accelerator program, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. |
| February 2018 |
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JPMorgan Chase announced plans to demolish 270 Park Avenue and build a new JPMorgan Chase Tower, using 383 Madison Avenue as a temporary headquarters during the project.
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| 2017 | PIA proposed selling the Roosevelt as part of a plan to raise $3.5 billion. Venture capitalist Shahal M. Khan expressed interest in buying the hotel for at least $500 million. |
| 2015 | Colin Bailey was appointed as the new director of the Morgan Library & Museum. |
| 2015 | Fund That Flip graduated from ERA's summer accelerator program. |
| 2015 | Start of a 3-year period (2015-2018) where the Financial Times ranked two ERA alumni startups (With Clarity, Fund That Flip) in the top 5% of independent Western Hemisphere companies based on organic CAGR. |
| 2014 | Griswold resigned as the Morgan's director. |
| 2014 | Forbes ranked PublicStuff #85 in its America's Most Promising Companies list. |
| 2013 | Cofounders of Consignd and VocalizeLocal from the ERA winter 2013 cohort later joined forces to create Casper, a $400 million e-commerce unicorn. |
| 2013 | PublicStuff expanded its customer footprint into the San Francisco Bay Area, with their iHelp app declared 'a huge success' by the Daly City planner. |
| 2013 | Forbes highlighted PublicStuff's founder Lily Liu as having built an 'outstanding company'. |
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