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The Times Square Building

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The Times Square Building

229 West 43rd Street (formerly The New York Times Building, The New York Times Annex, and the Times Square Building) is an 18-story office building in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1913 and expanded in three stages, it was the headquarters of The

New York Times newspaper until 2007. The original building by Mortimer J. Fox of Buchman & Fox stands on 43rd Street, as do a 1920s addition by Ludlow & Peabody and a 1930s addition by Albert Kahn. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon designed a wing on 44th Street in the 1940s. Columbia Property Trust owns most of the structure as an office building while Kushner Companies owns the lowest four floors as a retail and entertainment complex. The 43rd Street sections of the building are designed in the French Gothic, French Renaissance, and Italian Renaissance styles and are a New York City designated landmark. The original building and its additions rise 11 stories from the street, except for a four-story wing on the eastern end of the site. The 43rd Street sections of the building are topped by a set-back five-story attic, interrupted by a seven-story tower with a pyramidal hip roof. The facade is constructed...

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