The New York Times Building
Renzo Piano's first New York building, a glass tower sheathed in ceramic rods and home to the Times newsroom.
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A 52-story tower tied with the Chrysler Building as the city's thirteenth-tallest, standing one block west of Times Square. Designed by Piano with Fox & Fowle, built as a green building and completed in 2007 for over $1 billion. Its lower floors hold The New York Times newsroom wrapped around an enclosed garden.
What to look for
- Ceramic rods hung in front of the glass curtain wall to deflect heat and glare
- Exposed steel framing and bracing at the building's four corner 'notches'
- The enclosed garden the Times newsroom surrounds on the lower stories
A subway entrance to the 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station sits right next to the building's base.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.