One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Pearl Street, 375
 office building, skyscraper, telephone exchange building, 1976_construction
541-foot, 32-story modernist telecom/office building completed in 1976. Designed by Rose, Beaton & Rose for the New York Telephone Company, it was later used by Verizon. Located next to the Brooklyn Bridge in Downtown Manhattan, the building owes its great height to deal made with the builders of the adjacent Murray Bergtraum High School. As this triangular, low castle-like structure used only a portion of the building rights for the plot, they agreed to transfer the rest for the NY Telephone Co. to use on the switching station tower. As a payback, NY Telephone paid the bonds that were used to finance the school building.

Its floor area of 1.098 million square feet houses telecom equipment. The form of the white slab is broken by twin protrusions on the sides, rising above the roof level. The building is clad in limestone panels, with narrow vertical bands of dark-tinted windows running up the west facades and portions of the south and east-facing elevations. Narrow areas of the facade, as well as a large projecting expanse on the east-facing elevation are plain white stone, except for large metal vents near the bottom and at the top, and large dark-tinted glass curtain wall areas near the bottom, as well as a lighted Verizon sign affixed to the facade near the top.

In 2012, Seattle-based data center developer Sabey purchased the building and began planning a renovation to turn it into one of the largest data centers in the city. Verizon will continue to occupy a small amount of space in the tower. The work was completed in 2015.

The building underwent renovations in 2016.
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Coordinates:   40°42'39"N   74°0'4"W

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  • An appalling prison-like pile that mars the view from the Brooklyn Bridge.
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