The platforms and yards extend for several blocks north of the terminal building under numerous streets and existing buildings leasing air rights, including the famous MetLife Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The MetLife Building, headquarters of Metlife ; formerly Pan Am Building and headquarters of Pan American World Airways

The MetLife Building is a skyscraper located at 200 Park Avenue at East 45th Street above Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1958 – 63 as the Pan Am Building, the headquarters of Pan American World Airways.

File: MetLife from Empire State Building. jpg | The MetLife Building as seen from the Empire State Building

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Image: MetLIfe GC. JPG | MetLife Building with Grand Central Terminal in the foreground.

File: Pan Am Building, NYC, 1980s. jpg | A view of the MetLife Building and Grand Central Terminal when the building was known as the Pan Am Building

In addition to being the official headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the MetLife Building houses a number of other major firms, including the headquarters of Dreyfus Corporation, Knight Vinke and Barclays Wealth Americas, the largest office of Greenberg Traurig, DnB NOR, CB Richard Ellis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Hunton & Williams, Computer Sciences Corporation, Winston & Strawn & Lend Lease Corporation on Level 9.

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In a unique arrangement for the league, the Jets share MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey with the New York Giants.

The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement.

In 2010, the Giants moved from Giants Stadium into MetLife Stadium, then known as the " New Meadowlands Stadium ".

In 2004 MetLife sold the building to a group of investors, including New York-based Joseph Chetrit, Joseph Moinian, Lloyd Goldman, Joseph Cayre and Jeffrey Feil, and Skokie-based American Landmark Properties.

In an unusual coincidence, both games which had the New York Jets as a home team at New Meadowlands Stadium ( now MetLife Stadium ) were delayed by heavy rain and lightning.

Major projects in the United States include the New Meadowlands Stadium ( MetLife Stadium, home to the Giants and the Jets NFL franchises ), completed in 2010.

DC Comics, Deloitte, Duane Reade, Estée Lauder Companies, Foot Locker, Frederator Studios, JPMorgan Chase, Hess Corporation, Kroll Inc., L-3 Communications, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Marvel Entertainment, McGraw-Hill, MetLife, MidOcean Partners, Morgan Stanley, NBC Universal, The New York Times Company, NexCen Brands, Pfizer, Polo Ralph Lauren, Saks Incorporated ( Saks Fifth Avenue ), The Sharper Image, Simon & Schuster, Six Flags, TBWA Worldwide, Thomson Reuters, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Univision Communications, and Viacom.

In 2005, MetLife sold the building for $ 1. 72 billion, the record price at the time for an office building in the U. S. The buyer was a joint venture of Tishman Speyer Properties, the New York City Employees ' Retirement System, and the New York City Teachers ' Retirement System.

In 1987, the lifestyle periodical New York revealed in a poll that MetLife — then Pan Am — was the building that New Yorkers would most like to see demolished.

* May 16, 1977 – A New York Airways helicopter idling at the helipad on the MetLife Building – then the PanAm Building – toppled over and its rotor blade sheared off.

He moved several times as a child due to his father's work at MetLife, living in Cambridge, Ottawa, Lausanne, New York City and Wallingford.

The Portland House is substantially similar in design to the MetLife Building in New York City.

The New Meadowlands Stadium ( since named MetLife Stadium ), shared home of the New York Giants and New York Jets in East Rutherford, New Jersey was expected to eclipse both deals, with experts estimated it would value $ 25 – 30 million annually.

The MetLife Sports Complex is a sports and entertainment complex located in East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority ( NJSEA ).

In September 2010, MetLife Stadium, then known as New Meadowlands Stadium, opened for its first game.

MetLife Stadium is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the NFL, and is the only facility home to two NFL franchises.

The company ’ s principal offices are located at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, though it retains some executive offices and its boardroom in the MetLife Building, located at 200 Park Avenue, New York City, which it sold in 2005.

The predecessor company to MetLife began in 1863 when a group of New York City businessmen raised $ 100, 000 to found the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company.

MetLife Building | MetLife building at 200 Park Ave in New York City, the company ’ s corporate headquarters.

MetLife Hall of Records, Yonkers, New York. Insurance products accounted for 53 % of MetLife ’ s 2009 $ 49 billion of revenue.

On August 23, 2011, MetLife agreed to a 25 year sponsorship deal to rename New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, home of the NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets to MetLife Stadium.

The suit claimed that MetLife was improperly charging tenants " market rate " rents while at the same time receiving real estate tax benefits from the City of New York under the J-51 program, which requires property owners to maintain apartments as rent stabilized during the period in which they are receiving benefits.

This means it is possible to travel from the observation lounge in the Pru to the top of the MetLife Building in New York City without going outdoors ( by walking through the mall to Back Bay Station, hopping on Amtrak to Penn Station in New York, and taking the subway to Grand Central Terminal ).

Breuer is sometimes incorrectly credited, or blamed, for the former Pan Am Building ( now the MetLife Building ), an unpopular high-rise in New York City.

Greenberg Traurig's largest office is in the MetLife Building in New York City.

This made Citi Field the second major league sports venue in the area named for a corporate sponsor, ( after Continental Airlines Arena ( now Izod Center ), but preceding Prudential Center, MetLife Stadium, Red Bull Arena and Barclays Center, officially becoming the first in New York City itself, aside from two minor league ballparks ( MCU Park in Brooklyn, and Richmond County Bank Ballpark in Staten Island ).