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Around 1808, Robert Fulton bought a mansion on State Street at the corner of Marketfield Street, [1] which was near the current location of Bowling Green. [2]: 28 Later, in 1819, Herman Melville was born in a house on or near 15 State Street. [3]: 12 One of the row of stately town houses lining the Battery on State Street was the James Watson ...
388 Greenwich Street, originally called the Shearson Lehman Plaza and more recently the Travelers Building, is an office skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The building is located at Greenwich Street , with frontages on North Moore and West Streets. 388 Greenwich Street forms a complex with the ...
2. Central Park Tower, New York. Height: 1,550 feet Also known as Nordstrom Tower, this is the tallest residential building in the world and the tallest building outside of Asia by roof height alone.
The residential portion of the tower contains 145 condominiums with interiors designed by Thierry Despont. There are also amenities spaces on floors 12 through 16 and a lounge on floors 46 and 47. Plans for Tower Verre, a 1,250 ft-tall (380 m) skyscraper at 53 West 53rd Street, were announced in 2007 in conjunction with an expansion of MoMA.
The base of the tower consists of a brick-clad podium with ground-floor retail space, parking, and residential amenities. [1] The 66-story tower rises 731 feet (223 m) above street level, and consists of 921 residential units. [2] The building totals 838,000 sq ft (77,900 m 2) of floor area, including 17,400 sq ft (1,620 m 2) of retail space.
Stretching up 62 stories, a planned office tower at 350 Park Avenue will provide space for more than 6,000 jobs, plus 1.8 million square feet of commercial office space, according to a press release.
The Columbus development firm The Edwards Companies is proposing a 12-story residential tower on a parking lot on South 4th Street Downtown.
[43] [44] The Pan Am Building was the last tall tower erected in New York City before laws were enacted preventing corporate logos and names on the tops of buildings. [45] Modern New York City building code prohibits logos from being more than 25 feet (7.6 m) above the curb or occupying over 200 square feet (19 m 2) on a blockfront. [46]