The
Citigroup Center (formerly
Citicorp Center and now known as
601 Lexington Avenue) is an office tower in
New York City, located at
53rd Street between
Lexington Avenue and
Third Avenue in midtown
Manhattan. It was built in 1977 to house the headquarters of
Citibank. It is 915 feet (279 m) tall, one of the ten tallest
skyscrapers in New York, and has 59 floors with 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m²) of office space,