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375 Pearl Street (also known as the Intergate.Manhattan, One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, and Verizon Building) is a 32-story office and datacenter building in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan in New York City, at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was built for the New York Telephone Company and completed in 1975. It was renovated in 2016.
The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876. The principals were Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne Roosevelt . [ 2 ] Its purpose was to rent telephone instruments to users, who were expected to provide wires to connect them, for example from factory to office.
New York Telephone's vice president James S. McCulloh placed both the first and the last rivets. [115] The first employees moved to the building on February 19, 1926. [115] [121] All construction was completed by June 1926. [25] [115] However, the New York City Department of Buildings did not declare the building to be completed until April ...
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 114.2 million subscribers as of September 30, 2024.
View looking up from the adjacent street. The Long Lines Building was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke in the Brutalist style and completed in 1974. [7] Its style has been generally praised, with The New York Times saying it is a rare building of its type in Manhattan that "makes sense architecturally" and that it "blends into its surroundings more gracefully" than any other skyscraper ...
The company was formed in 1891 as part of a plan for common utility ducts to consolidate all utilities underground. [1] Incompatibility among the utilities limited the range of utilities that could share their ducts, so the company now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon New York Telephone under a franchise from the city.
Verizon Wireless offers mobile phone services through a variety of devices. [9] Its LTE in Rural America Program, with 21 rural wireless carriers participating, covers 2.7 million potential users in 169 rural counties. [10] Verizon Wireless announced in 2015 that it was developing a 5G, or fifth-generation, network. [11]
In the following states and regions, the primary local carrier is not an RBOC: Lumen Technologies, in addition to its role as the RBOC in the areas of 14 states gained from its acquisition of Qwest, Lumen serves other rural, suburban, and smaller city local exchanges, as well as most of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, covering a total of 16 states.