(the) Pan Am Building

(the) Pan Am Building
the Pan Am Building [the Pan Am Building]
one of the best-known buildings in New York, near ↑Grand Central Station, built by ↑Pan American World Airways and completed in 1963. It has the shape of a plane wing. The building was sold to an insurance company in 1991 and was then officially the Met Life Building, though many people continue to use its original name.

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