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Jacob K. Javits Federal Building

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Jacob K. Javits Federal Building

26 Federal Plaza (formally known as the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building) is a U.S. governmental office building on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. At 41 stories, it is the tallest federal building in the United States. It was built in 1963–69 and

was designed by Alfred Easton Poor and Kahn & Jacobs, with Eggers & Higgins as associate architects. A western addition, first announced on "inadvertently acquired land" in 1965, was built in 1975–77 and was designed by Kahn & Jacobs, The Eggers Partnership and Poor & Swanke. The building is named for Jacob Javits, who served as a United States Senator from New York for 24 years, from 1957 to 1981. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10278; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019. The building falls under the jurisdiction of the United States Federal Protective Service for any and all law enforcement and protection issues. To the east of the main building is the James L. Watson Court of International Trade Building. The building has received significant media attention due to its use by Immigration policy of the second Trump administration...

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