One Court Square, also known as the Citigroup Building, is a 50-story office tower in Long Island City,

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across the

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from

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. It was completed in 1989 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP for Citigroup. The building stood as Queens's tallest from its completion until the

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in 2019.

Design

One Court Square was designed by

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and is owned by Savanna. The building has a green-tinted glass-wrapped facade, and rises 50 stories above ground, with 54 stories total. It has 27 passenger elevators, 4 freight elevators, and 6 escalators. The interior contains 1,401,630 rentable square feet (130,203 square meters). The tower had been the tallest building in New York state outside of

, and the tallest building on Long Island for 29 years. In 2019, the building was surpassed by the

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Tower and the

in height to be demoted to the third tallest building on Long Island, and the second tallest building in Queens. Later, in 2021, it will also be surpassed in

by Queens Plaza Park, which will rise to . It is distinguished from the

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in Manhattan, which is across the street from Citigroup's former main headquarters at

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. The buildings are one stop apart on the New York City Subway's IND Queens Boulevard Line (); Citigroup Center is near Lexington Avenue–53rd Street, while One Court Square is right above Court Square–23rd Street, the next station east.

History

One Court Square opened in 1989. Citigroup sold the building in 2005. In 2012, Brooklyn real estate investors

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and David Werner purchased One Court Square for $481 million from Stephen L. Green's SL Green and JPMorgan Asset Management. In 2020, the Citi logo was removed from the building and replaced with a logo of telecommunications company

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, a tenant.

Tenants

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(also known as Voice of NY Radio Korea) broadcasts from the top of this building as do various low power television stations. Since 2017, the building has housed the headquarters of Altice on its top floors. In 2018 the building was selected to provide up to 25 floors to

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as part of one of its three Amazon HQ2 locations. However, the Amazon HQ2 location in New York City was later canceled.

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