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Originally Posted by wescoent
I believe it was meant to be the headquarters of all GM's east coast operations at the time. Whether that panned out, I'm not sure.
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Yep finished in the late 60s boomtime. From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...ding_(New_York)
It is opposite the Plaza Hotel diagonaly across the intersection from the 5th Ave and 59th St entrance to Central Park just below the uber wealthy apartments, condos and coops on 5th Ave in the 60's and just above Tiffany's on 57th St. The center of the world at the time so to speak.
In the final scene from 'The Way We Were' Robert Redford leaves from in front of GM building to cross to the other side where Barbra Streisand is in front of the Plaza.