CITY INVESTING.

Abandon hope, all ye who do business here!

The holdout was the Gilsey Building, and it turns out there's more to the story than you might think. The NYT:

Dowling acquired an L-shaped plot right next to Singer’s at the corner of Cortlandt Street and retained Francis H. Kimball to design what became the City Investing Building. Except for a six-story central tower section, Kimball put the outside walls smack against the lot line, with only a small light court on Cortlandt Street. But Dowling’s tenants needed light and air, too; he bought a corner holdout building and kept it as a light protector, along with another corner across the street.

So the holdout . . . didn't?

It all went down in 1966 for a rote slab that should be cursed to this day for its miserable inhumanity. At least this leviathan had style.