Draft:Wall Street Plaza
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Wall Street Plaza is a building located at 88 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.[1]
The building was designed by James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Partners. It was completed in 1973.[2][1] There is an L-shaped privately owned public space at the base of the building, occupying the former roadbed of Pine Street.[3]
In 2019, Amnesty International was denied a lease of the building. The building owner, a subsidiary of Chinese shipping conglomerate Cosco Shipping, had their offer to Amnesty International vetoed by Cosco.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Wall Street Plaza - The Skyscraper Center". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat – CTBUH. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780195383867.
- ^ Kayden, Jerold S. (March 30, 2016). "88 Pine Street". Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS). Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ^ Forsythe, Michael; Haag, Matthew (2019-05-13). "Amnesty International Is Denied Lease at New York Tower Owned by China, Group Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-04.