8 Spruce Street
| 8 Spruce Street (New York by Gehry) |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Mixed-use |
| Address | 8 Spruce Street Manhattan, New York City 10038 |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 40°42′39″N 74°00′20″W / 40.71083°N 74.00556°W |
| Construction started | 2006 |
| Completed | 2010 |
| Opening | February 2011 |
| Owner | Forest City Ratner |
| Management | First Service Residential |
| Height | |
| Roof | 870 ft (265 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 76 |
| Floor area | 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Frank Gehry |
| Developer | Forest City Ratner |
| Structural engineer | WSP Cantor Seinuk |
| Main contractor | Kreisler Borg Florman |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, between William and Nassau Streets, in Lower Manhattan, just south of City Hall Park and the Brooklyn Bridge.
8 Spruce Street is one of the tallest residential towers in the world, and it was the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere at the time of opening in February 2011. The building was developed by Forest City Ratner, designed by Frank Gehry Architects and WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers, and constructed by Kreisler Borg Florman. It contains a public elementary school owned by the Department of Education. Above that and grade-level retail, the tower contains only residential rental units (898 in total), a rarity in New York’s Financial District. The skyscraper's structural frame is made of reinforced concrete, and form-wise it falls within the architectural style of Deconstructivism together with Aqua, a skyscraper in Chicago begun after but completed before 8 Spruce.
The school is sheathed in reddish-tan brick, and covers 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of the first five floors of the building. It hosts over 600 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade classes. A fourth floor roof deck holds 5,000 square feet (460 m2) of outdoor play space.
Above the elementary school is a 904-unit luxury residential tower clad in stainless steel. The apartments range from 500 square feet (46 m2) to 1,600 square feet (150 m2), and consist of studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. All units are priced at market-rate, with no low or moderate income-restricted apartments. All units are rental-only; none are available for purchase.
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