How a Scholar’s Telephone Name Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Story of the Citicorp Middle

The Cit­i­group Cen­ter in Mid­city Man­hat­tan can also be identified by its handle, 601 Lex­ing­ton Avenue, at which it’s been stand­ing for 47 years, longer than the medi­an New York­er has been alive. Although nonetheless a good­ly hand­some construct­ing, in a sev­en­ties-cor­po­fee kind of means, it now pops out solely gentle­ly on the sky­line. At…