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60 Wall Street is designed with 1.5 × 10 ^ 6 sq ft (140,000 m 2) of leasable space. [1] Before 60 Wall Street was developed, the site was zoned to only allow a building of 804,900 sq ft (74,780 m 2) "as of right", assuming a floor area ratio of 15.
70 Pine Street (formerly known as the 60 Wall Tower, Cities Service Building, and American International Building) is a 67-story, 952-foot (290 m) residential skyscraper in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, [4] is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.It is bounded by the West Side Highway on the west, Chambers Street and City Hall Park on the north, Brooklyn Bridge on the northeast, the East River to the southeast, and South Ferry and the Battery on the south.
Morgan Guaranty, which later became a subsidiary of holding company J. P. Morgan & Co., [103] announced in 1985 that it would purchase and fully occupy a proposed tower at 60 Wall Street, a larger and more modern building two blocks to the east. [104] Three years later, the company's operations were moved from 23 to 60 Wall Street.
A subway entrance from the street is built into Trinity's Broadway facade. [20]: 10 The basements are clad in granite, [18] and above them the curtain wall is Indiana limestone richly ornamented with a wide variety of gargoyles. The facades have a tripartite form: four-story base, 13-story shaft, and four-story capital.
Following the Central Union Trust Company's sale of the buildings to the north to the Irving Trust Company, which then built a new skyscraper at 1 Wall Street, Central Union Trust moved to the Manhattan Life Building [5] and modified the structures at 60, 62, and 70 Broadway. [6]
W New York - Downtown Hotel and Residences is a 630-foot-tall building (190 m) at 8 Albany Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.The 58-story building was completed in 2010, and is tied with two other buildings, Home Insurance Plaza and the W.R. Grace Building as the 106th tallest building in New York.
Originally designed for the CNA company, formerly the Continental Ins. Cos, which moved their office from 80 Maiden Ln, the building is now occupied by major financial and legal firms. The octagonal floor of the building and the glass facade contrast with the neighboring high-rise skyscrapers, such as 120 Wall Street and One Chase Manhattan Plaza.