The New York Times Building - Tenants

Tenants

The New York Times Company owns about 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) on the second through the 27th floors. Forest City Ratner owns about 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) on floors 29 through 52, as well as 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) of street-level retail space. The lobby and floors 28 and 51 are jointly owned. Six law firms have their offices in the building: Covington & Burling LLP (39th-43rd); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (36th floor); Pepper Hamilton LLP (37th floor); Seyfarth Shaw LLP (31st-33rd floors); and Goodwin Procter LLP (leasing floors 23-27 from the New York Times and floors 29-30 from FCRC).

Other office tenants include: Barclays Center/New Jersey Nets, JAMS, Legg Mason-Western Asset Management, Markit Group Limited, The Resolution Experts, Samoo Architecture P.C., Autonomy Corporation and SJP Properties. Retail tenants include: Inakaya, Dean & DeLuca, and MUJI. Towards the end of 2008, BT Group hope to have started consolidating their NY employees into new offices on the 45th and 46th floors.

On the first floor is the Times Center, an event space consisting of a 378-seat auditorium, a 900 square foot (84 square meter) gallery for exhibits and receptions, and 5,000 square foot (464 square meter) hall for banquets and parties. Some types of tenants are prohibited under the terms of the lease of the property from the Empire State Development Corporation. These include medical offices, employment agencies, job training centers, and social-services offices.

  • The main entrance on Eighth Avenue

  • The New York Times newsroom

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