Astor had problems completing the assembly of the lots of mostly residential buildings as a pharmacy held out.

At the time, Citigroup said it was moving many of its offices to One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens.

After the September 11 attacks damaged much of their headquarters at Brookfield Place, Lehman Brothers leased 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) in the building until their 2008 bankruptcy.

[4] Other former tenants included law firms Caplin & Drysdale, which moved to 600 Lexington Avenue and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, which moved to 7 World Trade Center.

[5][6] In December 2013, Citigroup announced it would relocate its global headquarters to 388 and 390 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, a complex it had purchased from SL Green Realty in 2016.