One World Financial Center

200 Liberty Street | also 1 World Financial Center | Battery Park City | built 1986

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  1. 1986

    Pelli tops the 40-story tower with a mastaba-shaped roof and links it by skybridge

    The 577-foot tower has about 1.6 million square feet of leasable space. Its roof takes the form of a mastaba, a truncated square pyramid, continuing a scheme in which the other World Financial Center towers wear a dome, a pyramid and a stepped pyramid. A skybridge across Liberty Street joins it to the rest of the complex.

    “The building opened in 1986 as part of the World Financial Center and was designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1986

    Cesar Pelli's One World Financial Center tower opens in Battery Park City

    Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates, the 40-story, 577-foot tower opens in 1986 as part of the World Financial Center, after construction that began in 1984. Its roof is a truncated pyramid in the form of a mastaba, one of several ancient-structure shapes that cap the complex's towers.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1997

    January 22

    Dow Jones opens a street-level business-news TV studio on the ground floor

    The day after the new WBIS channel 31 launches, Dow Jones begins airing business news from an all-digital studio on the ground floor of the tower, then called One World Financial Center. Programming runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and draws on The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, with anchors including Tony Guida, Carol Martin and a future Fox News host, Martha MacCallum. The sports-and-stocks format flops, and the station signs off that June.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2001

    September 11

    Wall Street Journal staff regroup in New Jersey after the towers' fall damages their newsroom

    The Journal's headquarters stood in this tower, across the street from the World Trade Center. When the towers fell, the newsroom's windows shattered and dust and debris filled the offices; foreign editor John Bussey phoned in live reports to CNBC from a ninth-floor office as the towers burned. Editors improvised from an editor's home while most staff went to Dow Jones's campus in South Brunswick, New Jersey, and a scaled-down issue still reached newsstands the next day. The paper won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2001

    September 11

    The September 11 attacks heavily damage the tower, closing it for months

    Dust and debris from the collapsing World Trade Center shatter many of the building's windows, and the neighboring Winter Garden Atrium is badly damaged as well. The tower stays closed for extensive restoration and reopens in 2002. It is renamed 200 Liberty Street in 2014, when the complex becomes Brookfield Place.

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 2014

    One World Financial Center becomes 200 Liberty Street as the complex is renamed Brookfield Place

    When the rest of the World Financial Center was rebranded Brookfield Place in 2014, the first tower dropped its numbered name and took its Liberty Street address. Tenants over the years have included Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Investments, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Santander Bank.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2022

    Cadwalader, New York's oldest law firm, has its headquarters at 200 Liberty Street

    Attorney John Wells founded the practice in 1792, when roughly 80 lawyers worked in the city. By 2022 managing partner Patrick Quinn oversaw about 400 attorneys across five offices, and the firm took in $608.9 million in revenue in 2021. Cadwalader's partners voted in April 2026 to merge with Hogan Lovells.

    Source: Wikipedia

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