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8 Spruce Street, previously known as the Beekman Tower and New York by Gehry, [1] is a residential skyscraper on Spruce Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by architect Frank Gehry + Gehry Partners LLP and developed by Forest City Ratner , the building rises 870 feet (265.2 m) with 76 stories.
Christopher Gray of The New York Times wrote in 1991 that before the headquarters of the United Nations was built, the structure was "an out-of-place landmark". [21] The Beekman Tower's design was the inspiration for several other structures such as the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina .
Beekman Place is a small street located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a retaining wall above 49th Street, overlooking the glass apartment towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza, just north of the ...
1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building , it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings" .
5 Beekman Street is a building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is composed of the 10-story, 150-foot-tall (46 m) Temple Court Building and Annex (also known as Temple Court [a]) and a connected 51-story, [b] 687-foot-tall (209 m) condominium tower called the Beekman Residences, which contains 68 residential units.
In 2005 the affiliation with the NYU Medical Center ceased and the hospital reverted to the name New York Downtown Hospital. Following a full merger in 2013 with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, it was renamed New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. [7] Staff residence building. In 2005 the hospital discharged nearly 12,000 inpatients.
The center was privately funded. [8] Paul Berg obtained the support of philanthropists Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) and his wife Mabel (1900-1989), which was critical to establishing the center. [8] The Beckmans agreed to donate $12 million over 5 years, approximately 1/5 of the cost of the new center, through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman ...
111 Eighth Avenue occupies the full city block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [1] The building, completed in 1932, was designed by Lusby Simpson of Abbott, Merkt & Co. [2] [3] The building is 15 stories tall and has 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m 2) of floor space, more than the Empire State Building; [4 ...