What Citi building?
America woke up this morning to learn that five buildings have been targeted by Al Qaeda – The New York Stock Exchange, two international financial institutions in Washington, one random place in New Jersey, and “the Citigroup building in Manhattan”. Which raises the obvious question: what Citigroup building in Manhattan? My first thought is that they must be talking about the Citigroup Center, at 153 E53rd St – that, after all, is the building described in the New York Times graphic. It’s an iconic building, with its distinctive angled roof, and recognisable by most of the world’s opinion-formers. Problem is, it has very little in the way of Citigroup tenancy. According to Curbed, on the other hand, AM New York thinks that the actual target is next door, at 399 Park, and in fact the photograph in the New York Times is of an armed policeman in front of 399 Park, not 153 E53rd. Curbed’s correspondent says, falsely, that Citigroup has moved out of 399 Park and that Citigroup HQ is now in
