8 Spruce Street

8 Spruce Street is a 76-story skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. It is also called New York by Gehry, after the famous architect who designed it, Frank Gehry, and was also originally known as Beekman Tower. The skyscraper is located to the south of City Hall Plaza, near Brooklyn Bridge.

Construction of 8 Spruce Street began in 2006. It was completed at the end of 2010, and opened in February, 2011. The tower is 876 ft (267 m) tall, making it one of the tallest residential towers in the western hemisphere, about the same height at Aqua in Chicago.

8 Spruce Street, New York City
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Within 8 Spruce Street is a public elementary school which occupies the first five floors of the building, and includes a 5000-sq-ft outdoor play space on the fourth floor roof deck. There are 903 units of luxury condominiums ranging in size from 500 to 1,600 sq ft. There is also space for a branch of the New York Downtown Hospital.

Getting there

The Fulton Street Subway Stations are served by the 2, 3, A and C trains. There is a bit of walking from these stations. You can also take the 4, 5, 6 and 6X trains to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Subway Station and walk south from there.

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