# Talk:General Motors Building (Manhattan)

My personal observation/comments regarding GM's endeavor to compete with foreign car competion.
Embedded healthcare factors:
Time for thoughtful people to learn that 360/million US residents, insured or not, are transferring wealth (unrecordable  to carriers of the nations' healthcare each time they buy something, or pay a tax (federal, state, county, city, townships, fireman, police, city workers, etc, etc.  to health insurance carriers, a tangled maze of random healthcare-factors, resulting in inflated prices on all American goods and services, both here and in all exports. 
Over 17/million new cars sold in 2007. Each accumulating additional layers of healthcare factors: registration, insurance, loans, permits, etc,etc...all these, also with overlaying embedded healthcare factors, thus pyramiding unrecorded healthcare factors to perhaps $trillions transferring randomly to carriers when included with purchases of all consumer goods. 
GM's former pricing dilemma for instance: acknowledged factor for workers' healthcare ($1600). Add to this, unrecordable $billions of embedded healthcare factors for all GM vendors' items (which also are laden with factors embedded sub-components) and you get some idea why GM has failed to outsell foreign cars, all due to our non-system (pyramid) of random healthcare factors, a sink-hole in our already sinking economy. 
Former U.S. Attorney General, John Ashcroft announced, "the most important function of government is to protect its citizens from harm." 
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I think someone should mention that Henry Macklowe had a lot to do with the glass cube.  Based on my understanding he came up with the idea and sold it to Apple.  http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/14/real_estate/real_estate_mogul.fortune/index.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.191.175.130 (talk) 15:11, 15 June 2011 (UTC) 

Orginally, there was a sunken plaza in the front of the building with a staircase leading down into it, surrounded by an underground storefront area. For most of the 70s, this area contained The Auto Pub, a theme restaurant that had antique cars and car seats in it which were used for seating. In the early 90s, this area had a Houlihan's (a chain of Irish-themed bars with a 1980s "Fern Bar" feel to them). Later the plaza was filled in and the Apple Store cube added.
From at least 1990-1995, the ground floor contained both FAO Schwartz and an exhibit room to show off GM cars. I do not believe cars were actually sold there at this time; it was purely advertising.
In the early 90s, the building had serious cooling problems because of the widespread use of computers; the building had not been designed to provide cooling for a multi-hundred watt computer and monitor setup in use by every worker. Buildings of this type usually provide air conditioning by means of many AC units which are fed by water cooling pipes, so the amount that the interior can be cooled is limited by the amount of cold water that can be moved around, and the amount of water is limited by how much space is in the vertical passageways of the building service core that water pipes get run through.
By the 1990s, so much interior renovation had taken place as tenants moved in and out over the decades that electrical runs were both inconsistent and poorly documented; two outlets in the same small room could be powered from circuit breakers hundreds of feet apart, and it was often difficult to tell where power for an area was coming from.
The loading docks are on the 59th St side of the building, with lobby entrances on both the Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue sides.
The vertical stripe design of the exterior cleverly includes tracks for window cleaning platforms.
--Akb4 (talk) 10:14, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

why no mention of the book?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.210.110 (talk) 14:20, 11 June 2015 (UTC) 

Why did GM want a building in NYC?
What departments did GM have in that building?  Marketing?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.72.253.132 (talk) 14:03, 28 August 2017 (UTC) 

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