Berny's photos with the keyword: PANAM

view from Empire State Building - scanned slide, Minolta X700

In the meantime the name PANAM is gone and the skyscraper is called "MetLife Building". It was built 1960-1963 with 58 floors and is 246.3 m tall. It used to have a rooftop helipad, however it was closed due to a fatal accident in 1977. The MetLife Building was the Pan Am Building from 1963 to 1981 when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company purchased the building from Grand Central Buildings, Inc. The architectural stly is "brutalist". The old skyscraper in front of the PANAM ist the "Helmsley Building", built in 1929, 35 floors, 172.2 m. Architectural style is a mixture of Art déco, beaux arts and neo gothic. The view is from Park Avenue, looking NE to SW. scanned slide, Minolta X700