253 Liberty Lane is an office building in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars located in City Hall, Algonquin.
Description[]
Located on the southwest corner of Liberty Lane and Emerald Street, 253 Liberty Lane is a 12-storey building designed in the Neoclassical style. The building has a rectangular floor plan, extending west along Emerald Street and then south to an adjacent building. Several copies of the building are scattered throughout Algonquin: one on the northwest corner of Frankfort Avenue and Iron Street in The Meat Quarter, one with a square floor plan on the southwest corner of Feldspar Street and Columbus Avenue in Little Italy, and one on Kunzite Street in Star Junction, with a fire escape staircase on the western elevation and without the loggia on the 2nd and 3rd storeys. The building is inaccessible to the player and plays no role in the storyline.
Influence[]
253 Liberty Lane appears to be a downscaled copy of the Home Life Building[1] located on 253 Broadway, New York, United States. The building was “flipped” along a vertical axis so that the southern elevation of 253 Broadway faces north in GTA IV. The facade of the building is virtually indistinguishable from that of its real-life counterpart, albeit one storey shorter.