 When Altman's closed, the building stood vacant until 1996, when the exterior was restored by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer and the interior reconfigured by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates to be used by the City University of New York as its CUNY Graduate Center on the Fifth Avenue side; by the New York Public Library as the Science, Industry and Business Library on the Madison Avenue side; and by Oxford University Press.In addition, Altman's Sixth Avenue building is part of the Ladies' Mile Historic District created in 1989.The Manhattan B. Altman store featured in the storyline of the 2017 Amazon Studios television series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", in which the main character, Midge Maisel, takes a job on the shop floor.