One World Financial Center is a skyscraper in Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

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, New York City

New York City

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It is located at 200 Liberty Street

Liberty Street (Manhattan)

Liberty Street is a street in New York City that stretches east-west from the middle of Lower Manhattan almost to the East River. It borders such sites as One Chase Manhattan Plaza, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, One Liberty Plaza, Liberty Plaza Park, the World Trade Center site, the World...

 between South End Avenue and West Street. It was built in 1985 as part of the World Financial Center

World Financial Center

The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings across West Street from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan in New York City, overlooking the Hudson River. This complex is home to offices of companies including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group, the Wall Street...

 complex. It is a 40 story building reaching the height of 577 ft (176 m). It has a leasable area of 1,628,000 ft² (151,000 m²). Similarly to other WFC buildings it has a unique roof which is a flat-top pyramid

Frustum

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. It is connected to the rest of the WFC complex by a skybridge

Skybridge

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 over Liberty Street.

The building is located across the street from the World Trade Center site

World Trade Center site

The World Trade Center site , also known as "Ground Zero" after the September 11 attacks, sits on in Lower Manhattan in New York City...

 and was significantly damaged in the September 11 attacks. The initial dust cloud and other explosions shattered many windows, majorly damaging nearby Winter Garden Atrium

Winter Garden Atrium

The Winter Garden Atrium is a 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's World Financial Center. Originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, the Atrium houses various plants, trees and flowers, and shops...

 and other buildings of the WFC. It was closed for several months and reopened after restoration.

Notable tenants

• Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft
  Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft
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• Deloitte and Touche
• Dow Jones & Co.
• Fidelity Investments
  Fidelity Investments
  FMR LLC or Fidelity Investments is an American multinational financial services corporation one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world. It was founded in 1946 and serves North American investors. Fidelity Ventures is its venture capital arm...
  
  
• National Financial Services
• The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
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• Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
• Willis of New York
• AIG Royal Alliance, Inc.
• XL Insurance
• ED&F Man

See also

• 2 World Financial Center
• 3 World Financial Center
• 4 World Financial Center