New Yorkers can now lease an apartment in the former HQ of Goldman Sachs at 55 Broad St., where it was based from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Across the street, in those days, were the offices of Drexel Burnham Lambert, while up the road stood the grand homes for Bank of America Corp. and what was then J.P. Morgan & Co.
"According to Larry Silverstein — for whom this office-to-residential conversion will be a first — the building’s wedding cake shape is ideal for such a project, because no void had to be created for apartments to get light.
'It has a large base, but then over the base the building comes in and rises, so the tower over the base is perfect for residential use,” Silverstein said in an interview from his office in 7 World Trade Center. “Every apartment is going to have windows, windows, windows.'"
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