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✎ The Helmsley Building is a 35-story building built in 1929 as the New York Central Building & designated a New York City Landmark in 1987. It was designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, in the Beaux-Arts style. Before the erection of the Pan Am Building [behind it] – now the MetLife Building – this building stood out over the city's second most prestigious avenue as the tallest structure in the great "Terminal City" complex around Grand Central. The building is a slab-sided skyscraper with a distinctive design that includes a means of transporting Park Avenue from street level to the divided aerial highway that passes through the building, & then around Grand Central Terminal to 42nd Street, & then back to street level. The viaduct through the building has two portals -- one for uptown traffic, one for downtown. The Helmsley Building has changed hands a few times in its history; most recently in 2007 when it was purchased by Goldman Sachs for over $1 billion.

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