One Police Plaza
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| Alternative names | 1PP |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Brutalist |
| Location | New York City, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°42′44″N 74°00′06″W / 40.712204°N 74.001676°WCoordinates: 40°42′44″N 74°00′06″W / 40.712204°N 74.001676°W |
| Current tenants | New York City Police Department |
| Construction started | 1968 |
| Completed | 1973 |
| Inaugurated | 1979 |
| Renovated | 1984 |
| Cost | $58 million |
| Owner | City of New York |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 14 (above ground) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Gruzen & Partners |
| Main contractor | Castagna & Sons |
One Police Plaza (often abbreviated as 1PP) is the headquarters of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The building is located on Park Row in Civic Center, Manhattan near New York City's City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Its block borders Park Row, Pearl Street, and Police Plaza. 1PP replaces the NYPD's previous headquarters at 240 Centre Street, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north of 1 Police Plaza.
Like Boston City Hall, One Police Plaza is rectangular in plan and is an inverted pyramid in elevation. It is a 13-level, horizontally-oriented Brutalist building designed by Gruzen and Partners in 1973. A 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) expansion project was completed in 2011. Although the project did not add any new floors to the building or any new employees to police headquarters, it does have new computers and equipment. Angry Lower Manhattan residents held a rally on August 27, 2008 near One Police Plaza to protest the addition, and tenants of three neighboring co-ops filed a lawsuit to force the NYPD to undergo environmental and land use reviews.
Located on the eighth floor of One Police Plaza is the Real Time Crime Center, an anti-crime computer network which is essentially a large search engine and data warehouse operated by detectives to assist officers in the field with their investigations. The Major Case Squad and the Technical Assistance Response Unit are also located at 1PP.
Inside 1 Police Plaza, a room on the second floor affectionately called "The Shack" serves as the police bureau office for local press outlets. Its tenants include the Associated Press, the Daily News, New York Post, The New York Times, Newsday, Staten Island Advance, El Diario La Prensa, NY1 News, and WINS Radio. Its police counterpart is on the 13th floor, the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI). Also inside 1PP is the "Fourteenth Floor", the NYPD commissioner's office.
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