World Financial Center

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A view of the World Trade Center, World Financial Center, and Battery Park City from the Hudson River on August 26, 2000.

The World Financial Center

Sunset reflected in the World Financial Center.

The World Financial Center at night.

The WFC's Winter Garden

Part of the World Financial Center viewed from the World Trade Center.

For the identically named building in Shanghai, see Shanghai World Financial Center.

The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings across West Street from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan in New York City, overlooking the Hudson River. This complex is home to offices of major corporations including Merrill Lynch and American Express as well as Dow Jones and its Wall Street Journal division among others. The entire complex is owned by Brookfield Properties, except for the space occupied by American Express.

Designed by César Pelli, with Adamson Associates, the complex was built by Olympia and York between 1985 and 1988 on landfill used to build Battery Park City. The fill material came from dirt excavated during the building of the World Trade Center, as well as garbage, dirt and debris.

Portions of the complex, especially the Winter Garden, were severely damaged in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but has since been reopened after significant repairs.

[edit] Buildings

One World Financial Center (1986), height 577 ft (176 m), 40 stories
- Address: 200 Liberty Street
- Leasable area: 1,628,000 ft² (151,000 m²)
- Rooftop: square, sloping top
- Tenants
  - Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft
  - Deloitte and Touche
  - Dow Jones & Co.
  - Fidelity Investments
  - Lehman Brothers
  - National Financial Services
  - Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP
Two World Financial Center (1987), height 645 ft (197 m), 44 stories
- Address: 225 Liberty Street
- Leasable area: 2,491,000 ft² (231,000 m²)
- Rooftop: round dome
- Tenants
Three World Financial Center (1985), height 739 ft (225 m), 51 stories
- Address: 200 Vesey Street
- Leasable area: 1,200,000 ft² (111,000 m²)
- Rooftop: pyramid
- Tenants
  - American Express (American Express owns the property which it occupies)
  - BearingPoint
  - Computer Generated Solutions Inc.
  - Morgan & Finnegan, LLP (intellectual property boutique law firm)
  - Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Four World Financial Center (1986) height 500 ft (152 m), 34 stories ("North Tower")
- Address: 250 Vesey Street
- Leasable area: 1,800,000 ft² (167,000 m²)
- Rooftop: square, with several "steps"
- Tenants
  - Merrill Lynch 100%
Winter Garden Atrium (1988) a 45,000 ft² glass domed pavilion housing various plants, trees and flowers, also shopping areas, cafes (located between buildings 2 and 3) Rebuilt after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
- Leasable area: 295,000 ft² (27,000 m²)
- Tenants
  - Ann Taylor
  - Banana Republic
  - Eckerd
  - The Gap
  - Hallmark
  - Starbucks
NYMEX building (1997) 16 stories
- Address: 1 North End Avenue
- Leasable area: 500,000 ft² (46,000 m²)
- Tenants
  - New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
  - New York Board of Trade (NYBOT)