101 Hudson Street, also referenced as the Merrill Lynch Building is the second-tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is the third-tallest in the state of New Jersey. Completed in 1992, it has 42 stories, and reaches a height of 167 m (548 ft). It was the second tallest building in New Jersey after the Trump Taj Mahal until the Goldman Sachs Tower (30 Hudson Street) was completed in 2004. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and AIG are among the tenants.
This building was designed by Brennan Beer Gorman / Architects LLP.
The building is host to several nesting sites for Peregrine Falcons. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection, Division of Fish & Wildlife, maintains a Jersey City Peregrine Cam at some of the sites on the building.
Upper floors have unobstructed views of Manhattan to the east. Some views south include New York Bay and the Statue of Liberty while others include the Goldman Sachs Tower (30 Hudson Street) and the two residential high rises of Hudson Greene.
101 Hudson St. is within the section of Jersey City known as Exchange Place.
Famous quotes containing the words hudson and/or street:
“In America, every female under fifty calls herself a “girl.””
—H.E. Bates, British screenwriter, and David Lean. Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn)
“And men left down their work and came,
And women with petticoats coloured like flame.
And little bare feet that were blue with cold,
Went dancing back to the age of gold,
And all the world went gay, went gay,
For half an hour in the street to-day.”
—“Seumas” “O’Sullivan” (1879–1958)