tangent4ronpaul
12-23-2010, 02:22 PM
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Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-nyc/
So down, in fact, that the web search titan just dropped $1.9 billion to acquire one of the largest and most historic buildings in all of the Big Apple. At nearly 3 million square feet, 111 Eighth Avenue, the former Port Authority building, sits like a beached, red-brick cruise ship overlooking New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. The building is so big, in fact, that it has elevators large enough to accommodate 18-wheel semi-trucks.
And yes, that’s a helicopter landing pad on the roof.
It’s tough to describe how massive 111 Eighth Avenue is — you really have to stand in front of it. But suffice it to say that it takes about 20 minutes to walk once around the building, which encompasses one of those very long city blocks found on the West Side. The size is all the more striking because in a densely-packed city like New York, which is full of very tall buildings, it’s rare to find one that is so horizontally gigantic.
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Needless to say, it’s quite an upgrade from Google’s first New York City office — a Starbucks on 86th Street.
But 111 Eighth Avenue is no ordinary humongous building. As it happens, the structure sits almost directly on top of where the Hudson Street/Ninth Avenue fiber highway makes a dog-leg to the right before heading north-east toward the Upper West Side.
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Truly impressive! Especially the elevators! I've seen large elevators before - ones large enough to handle a car or small van or two. Ones that large satellites ride on when under construction. Ones in radomes, that let the dish duck before a nuke blast... but one that will support a 18 wheel semi truck! - WOW, just WOW!
-t
Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-nyc/
So down, in fact, that the web search titan just dropped $1.9 billion to acquire one of the largest and most historic buildings in all of the Big Apple. At nearly 3 million square feet, 111 Eighth Avenue, the former Port Authority building, sits like a beached, red-brick cruise ship overlooking New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. The building is so big, in fact, that it has elevators large enough to accommodate 18-wheel semi-trucks.
And yes, that’s a helicopter landing pad on the roof.
It’s tough to describe how massive 111 Eighth Avenue is — you really have to stand in front of it. But suffice it to say that it takes about 20 minutes to walk once around the building, which encompasses one of those very long city blocks found on the West Side. The size is all the more striking because in a densely-packed city like New York, which is full of very tall buildings, it’s rare to find one that is so horizontally gigantic.
(...)
Needless to say, it’s quite an upgrade from Google’s first New York City office — a Starbucks on 86th Street.
But 111 Eighth Avenue is no ordinary humongous building. As it happens, the structure sits almost directly on top of where the Hudson Street/Ninth Avenue fiber highway makes a dog-leg to the right before heading north-east toward the Upper West Side.
(continued)
Truly impressive! Especially the elevators! I've seen large elevators before - ones large enough to handle a car or small van or two. Ones that large satellites ride on when under construction. Ones in radomes, that let the dish duck before a nuke blast... but one that will support a 18 wheel semi truck! - WOW, just WOW!
-t