Kahn & Jacobs designed the tower, with James Ruderman as structural engineer. Construction ran from 1970 to 1972. The article names no client and gives no style. The structure is steel and concrete, and the walls are grey solar glass and anodized aluminum.
It has 57 floors and rises about 751 feet (229 m), though the text rounds the height to 750 feet. It has setbacks at the 7th, 14th and 55th floors. Mechanical rooms on the 12th and 13th floors shortened construction by six to nine months. It has 44 elevators in seven banks and 14 entrances.
Vornado Realty Trust owns it, and Helmsley-Spear sold it to Vornado for 420 million dollars in the late 1990s. The top-floor retail space was a Woolworth and later a Kmart, which closed in 2020. It was rebranded Penn 1 by 2021.
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