Formerly the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue is a 603 feet (184 m) tall skyscraper at the corner of 57th street in New York City, New York. It was completed in 1983 and has 41 floors. The building cost US$10 million, has 93,592 square metres (1,007,420 sq ft) of floor area, has 24 elevators, and is the 89th tallest building in New York. Edward Larrabee Barnes & Associates designed the building, and IBM developed it. IBM sold the tower to E.J. Minskoff Equities Inc in 1994. As of December 2007, 98% of the building is leased.
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