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The land used to house a collection of small tenements, stores and office buildings-where one served as the National Broadcasting Company’s headquarters-but Moses needed to acquire it from many different owners and clear the buildings to build his center.

Those transitions are just the latest in the long history of the parcel of land between West 58th and West 60th Streets along Eighth Avenue that really kicked off in the 1950s when the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, a state agency infamous master builder Robert Moses used to fund and construct capital projects, planned to build a convention center there.

“But we’re going to have to live through a couple of years of transitions.” “That’s going to be a real boom for us,” he said. While the Time Warner move will leave the space empty for about two years, Himmel said Deutsche Bank has nearly double the employees of Time Warner-6,000-and will bring much more people into the area. “With Deutsche Bank’s 20-year lease and Time Warner’s 15 years, the building will never have a square foot of vacancy for 35 years,” Riguardi said. Related originally planned to find a 300,000- to 400,000-square-foot anchor tenant in the building and separetly lease the other floors, but Deutsche Bank, which was looking to consolidate into one location, took everything, said Peter Riguardi, the president of JLL’s New York region who worked on the deal for both sides along with colleagues Frank Doyle, Clark Finney and Ken Siegel. “It’s never easy to replace a million-square-foot tenant, I don’t care where you are.” “We set the table for their departure and had plenty of time to anticipate their move,” Kenneth Himmel, the president and CEO of Related’s mixed-use division, Related Urban, told Commercial Observer. (Time Warner moves out in later this year.) It’s also home to an extensive collection of Victorian art and artifacts, and the attitude that life should be lived to its fullest.SEE ALSO: Feil Organization Taps L&L Holding’s Andrew Wiener as Leasing Headĭeutsche Bank’s deal ended Related Companies’ four-year process of trying to find a new tenant after Time Warner announced it would move to the landlord’s other development, Hudson Yards. Once the home of the Prohibition Enforcement Headquarters, it now houses the longest bar in NYC at 118 feet! At Oscar Wilde, a restaurant named for the famed author, that offers modern cuisine in a Victorian-era setting. Meanwhile, down the block is 45 West 27th Street, another building with a colorful history. The building attained landmark status in 1979, and today it houses modern luxury co-op apartments. So, it attracted such luminaries as Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, and Oscar Wilde. Its 300 luxurious rooms were furnished in the latest trappings of luxury for the time. Initially built for Peter Gilsey, a Danish merchant and city alderman, it opened as a hotel in 1872.

Its grand architecture is a perfect example of the French Second Empire style. Also, the “Slumdog” sandwich features a chickpea hot dog!įor a taste of old New York, take a walk around the block to Gilsey House, NYC, located at 1200 Broadway. And for breakfast (yes, breakfast) you can enjoy masala eggs or turmeric soup. Located at 15 West 27th Street, the menu at this Indian-inspired eatery boasts such delights as saag paneer and lamb keema. Just around the corner from 236 Fifth is Pondicheri a casual restaurant and bakery that got its start in Houston. Certainly, one of the hottest neighborhoods in Manhattan, and 236 Fifth Avenue overlooks it all! In fact, to this day, the park still serves as the starting point for the city’s annual veteran’s day parade. NoMad got its name from its location, just north of Madison Square Park, which was once a military parade ground.