The glass stripes are created by windows and opaque spandrels, forming continuous areas that are washed by machines sliding down the facade.

A seven-floor base wraps around the western portion of the building, and there is a sunken plaza with a large two-tier pool and fountains facing Sixth Avenue.

In the plaza stands the bronze statue named Out to Lunch[3] by John Seward Johnson II—of the same series as the one that once stood outside 270 Park Avenue.

In 1989, Exxon announced that it was moving its headquarters and around 300 employees from New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas.

Its New York offices moved to Brooklyn; it no longer retains a presence in Rockefeller Center.