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GRIFFON CORPORATION

712 Fifth Avenue, 18th Floor

New York, New York 10019

Telephone: (212) 957-5000

March 13, 2020

VIA EDGAR

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

Mail Stop: 3561

    Re:
    Griffon Corporation

    Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-237166)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This letter is provided
in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-237166), (the “Registration Statement”),
of Griffon Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), The AMES Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
ATT Southern LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Clopay Ames Holding Corp., a Delaware corporation, ClosetMaid LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, Clopay Corporation, a Delaware corporation, CornellCookson, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
Cornell Real Estate Holdings, LLC, an Arizona limited liability company, and Telephonics Corporation, a Delaware corporation (collectively,
the “Guarantors”). Upon the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantors propose
to offer to exchange an aggregate principal amount of up to $850,000,000 of the Company’s registered 5.75% Senior Notes due
2028 (the “Exchange Notes”) and the guarantees thereof by the Guarantors, for a like aggregate principal amount
of the Company’s outstanding restricted 5.75% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Old Notes”) and the guarantees
thereof by the Guarantors, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the exchange offer prospectus contained in
the Registration Statement. The Company previously issued the Old Notes on February 19, 2020 under an indenture dated as of February
19, 2020 by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee. All
of the Old Notes are outstanding on the date hereof.

The Company and Guarantors
(collectively the “Co-Registrants”) are registering the exchange offer in reliance on the staff’s position
enunciated in Exxon Capital Holdings Corp. (avail. May 13, 1988) (the “Exxon Capital Letter”).
Please be advised that the Co-Registrants have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute
the Exchange Notes to be received in the exchange offer and, to the best of the Co-Registrants’ information and belief, each
person participating in the exchange offer is acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course of business and is not engaged
in, does not intend to engage in and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of
the Exchange Notes. In this regard, the Co-Registrants will make each person participating in the exchange offer aware that if
such person is participating in the exchange offer for the purpose of

distributing the Exchange Notes, such person (i) could not
rely on the staff position enunciated in the Exxon Capital Letter or interpretive letters to similar effect and (ii) must comply
with registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”),
in connection with a secondary resale transaction. The Co-Registrants acknowledge that such a secondary resale transaction by such
person participating in the exchange offer for the purpose of distributing the Exchange Notes should be covered by an effective
registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K.

In addition, the Co-Registrants
will (i) make each person participating in the exchange offer aware (through the exchange offer prospectus) that any broker-dealer
who holds Old Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and who receives
Exchange Notes in exchange for such Old Notes pursuant to the exchange offer, may be a statutory underwriter and must deliver a
prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Notes and (ii) include
in the letter of transmittal to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the exchange offer provisions to
the following effect:

If the undersigned is a
broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Notes for its own account in exchange for Old Notes that were acquired as a result of
market-making activities or other trading activities, it acknowledges that (1) it has not entered into any arrangement or understanding
with the Company or an affiliate of the Company to distribute the Exchange Notes and (2) it will deliver a prospectus meeting the
requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale or transfer of such Exchange Notes; however, by so acknowledging
and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the
meaning of the Securities Act.

    Very truly yours,

    GRIFFON CORPORATION

    By:
    /s/ Seth L. Kaplan

    Seth L. Kaplan

    Senior Vice President