111 Eighth Avenue
- Year
- 1932
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
111 Eighth Avenue, also known as the Google Building and formerly Union Inland Terminal #1 and the Port Authority Building, is an Art Deco building in Chelsea completed in 1932. Fifteen stories tall and occupying a full city block, it holds 2.9 million square feet of floor space, more than the Empire State Building.
the building
Inland freight terminal. The Port of New York Authority began acquiring the site in 1930 over local residents' protests and built the building as an inland terminal serving the Hudson River piers, along with warehousing and industrial space.
From warehouse to tech hub. Occupancy fell to 50 percent in the 1970s as Manhattan's industrial activity declined and the Port Authority itself relocated to the World Trade Center in 1973. In the 1990s the building began attracting technology and telecommunications tenants.
the style
The building was constructed in the Art Deco style, giving its enormous block-filling industrial bulk the era's characteristic geometric detailing.
More on Art Decosignificance
In 2010, Google purchased the building for $1.8 billion and became its largest tenant, a move that helped draw other technology companies to Chelsea and contributed to the neighborhood's gentrification.
nearby
- New York Savings Bank
- Substation 235
- Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Lenox Health Greenwich Village
- IAC Building
- Hotel Chelsea