The four penthouses at the top of the Park Imperial (also known as the Bertelsmann Building, in Midtown) have been sold, three of them to Americans.

Still something of a pioneer in 1995, Virgin Entertainment opened a 75,000-square-foot store in the Bertelsmann Building on Broadway at 45th Street.

(It has since been acquired by the Bertelsmann media conglomerate and renamed the Bertelsmann Building.)

Loew's State Theatre (1921) formerly occupied the site of the Bertelsmann Building.

Some workers in the 44-story Bertelsmann Building at 1540 Broadway at 45th Street had to walk down stairways to reach the street because elevators were not working.

The top of the Bertelsmann Building is a slender spike.

The law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop, for instance, is close to leasing 200,000 square feet at the Bertelsmann Building in Times Square.

It will continue to occupy about 40 percent of the tower, which will still be called the Bertelsmann Building.

Directly across Broadway from the Marriott Marquis is the Bertelsmann Building, which the German publishing, music and entertainment conglomerate purchased in 1992.