4 World Trade Center
150 Greenwich Street | also 41 Cortlandt Way, 101 Liberty Street, 55 Cortlandt Way | Financial District | built 2009
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- 1977
Commodities exchanges move into the original 4 World Trade Center
An earlier, nine-story 4 World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons, stood on this corner of the site. Commodities exchange tenants began moving in during January 1977, and the Mercantile Traders finished their move on July 1. Deutsche Bank took floors four to six and the New York Board of Trade floors seven to nine. Its trading floor, with twelve pits, was among the largest in the world and appears in the film Trading Places.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
Gold and silver worth about $200 million, buried under the ruins, is mostly recovered
Beneath the original 4 World Trade Center, destroyed in the September 11 attacks, a Bank of Nova Scotia vault held gold and silver estimated at about $200 million. By November 1, 2001, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said most of it had been recovered, though he was unsure whether all had been. Armored cars were seen going to and from the site, and the bank said the metals had to be moved because the building was to be demolished.
Source: latimes.com
- 2012
A crane cable snaps and drops a load of steel about 40 floors onto a truck
Just before 10 a.m. one morning in February 2012, a crane cable at the 4 World Trade Center construction site broke as it lifted steel beams from a flatbed truck. The load fell roughly forty stories onto the truck. An engineer on site told DNAInfo he first thought another plane was coming. Early reports mentioned a slightly hurt worker, but Tishman Construction said no one was injured, and the job was partly shut for an investigation.
Source: observer.com
- 2012
Architects design the tower to nearly vanish into the skyline
As the steel frame neared its 977-foot top in June 2012, The New York Times called the tower the biggest skyscraper New Yorkers had never heard of. Maki and Associates of Tokyo had made it understated and deferential to the 9/11 memorial, and project architect Osamu Sassa said the firm liked the idea of the building dematerializing. Thick, flat curtain-wall glass and thin vertical louvers help, and the west face toward the memorial has no louvers at all.
Source: archive.nytimes.com
- 2012
Cortlandt Street is restored as an open-air Cortlandt Way beside the new tower
Demolition for the original World Trade Center began on Cortlandt Street in 1965, and three blocks of the street were then erased. In late 2012 the Port Authority board signed off on an $11.2 million contract for T.B. Penick & Sons to rebuild the block between Church and Greenwich Streets as Cortlandt Way. About 300 feet long and open to the sky, it would be closed to traffic, owned by the Port Authority and lined with shops at the base of 3 and 4 World Trade Center.
Source: archive.nytimes.com
- 2013
4 World Trade Center opens to tenants and the public
Designed by Fumihiko Maki and built by Silverstein Properties at a cost of $1.67 billion, the 978-foot tower opens on November 13, 2013, becoming the second building of the rebuilt World Trade Center to open after 7 World Trade Center. At opening its only tenants are the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New York City government, together filling about 60 percent of the space.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
The half-empty tower rents floors for parties, fashion shows and a Super Bowl ad
In early 2014, with only about half of its 2.3 million square feet leased, 4 World Trade Center was working as a high-end event venue. It hosted cocktail parties, film shoots and fashion shows, and Silverstein Properties charged $50,000 per floor per day. One shoot was a Super Bowl ad with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don Cheadle and a llama. The events were to end once tenants moved in.
Source: therealdeal.com
- 2015
The Port Authority relocates its headquarters to the new tower
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey leases about 600,000 square feet in the new tower for its headquarters and moves in during 2015 from 225 Park Avenue South in Gramercy Park. New York City government is the other first tenant, taking roughly 580,000 square feet of space.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2017
Street artist WhisBe installs a seven-foot Vandal Gummy sculpture in the lobby
In June 2017 WWD reported that street artist WhisBe, short for What Is Beautiful, had put a seven-foot red gummy-candy sculpture called Vandal Gummy in the tower's lobby. He first came to 4 WTC when Silverstein Properties asked artists to paint murals on the then-vacant 69th floor, and he later got the empty 59th floor as a studio. Incoming tenant Spotify liked the art enough to keep it.
Source: wwd.com
- 2017
Spotify's lease brings 4 World Trade Center to full occupancy
Spotify announces in February 2017 that it will lease floors 62 to 72 as its US headquarters, then expands its space again that July. Office demand in Lower Manhattan had been weak, and the tower had been slow to attract private tenants. The deal brings 4 World Trade Center to full occupancy.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
Silver Art Projects opens free artist studios on the 28th floor
Silver Art Projects, a nonprofit run by Larry Silverstein's grandson Cory Silverstein, opens 28 studios on the tower's 28th floor in 2020. Artists chosen through an annual application process get 25 of the studios and use them rent-free. The other three are set aside for the program's mentors.
Source: Wikipedia
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