Editing Battery Park City (section)

=== Office ===
[[File:World Financial Center 2006.jpg|thumb|Brookfield Place as seen in 2006, when it was the World Financial Center]]
Battery Park City, which is mainly residential, also has a few office buildings. The seven buildings including the Brookfield Place complex, as well as 200 West Street, are the neighborhood's only office buildings.

==== {{anchor|Brookfield Place}} Brookfield Place complex ====
{{main|Brookfield Place (New York City)}}
Located in the middle of Battery Park City and overlooking the [[Hudson River]], Brookfield Place, designed by [[César Pelli]] and owned mostly by [[Toronto]]-based [[Brookfield Properties]], has been home to offices of various major companies, including [[Merrill Lynch]], [[RBC Capital Markets]], [[Nomura Group]], [[American Express]] and [[Brookfield Asset Management]], among others. Brookfield Place also serves as the United States headquarters for [[Brookfield Properties]], which has its headquarters located in [[200 Vesey Street]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.com/arts__attractions/world_financial_center_and_winter_garden.1466/editorial_review.aspx |title=World Financial Center and Winter Garden New York City.com : Arts & Attractions : Editorial Review |publisher=Nyc.com |access-date=August 18, 2012 |archive-date=January 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107025406/http://www.nyc.com/arts__attractions/world_financial_center_and_winter_garden.1466/editorial_review.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfinancialcenter.com/retail-dining/about |title=about |publisher=Worldfinancialcenter.com |access-date=August 18, 2012 |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919222951/http://worldfinancialcenter.com/retail-dining/about |url-status=live }}</ref> Brookfield Place also has its own [[zip code]], 10281.

Brookfield Place's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the [[Winter Garden Atrium|Winter Garden]]. Outside of the Winter Garden lies a sizeable [[yacht]] harbor on the Hudson known as North Cove.

The building's original developer was [[Olympia and York]] of [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. It used to be named the World Financial Center, but in 2014, the complex was given its current name following the completion of extensive renovations. The World Financial Center complex was built by [[Olympia and York]] between 1982 and 1988;<ref name="great" /> it was damaged in the September 11 attacks but later repaired. It has six constituent buildings – [[200 Liberty Street]], [[225 Liberty Street]], [[200 Vesey Street]], [[250 Vesey Street]], the Winter Garden Atrium, and [[One North End Avenue]] (a.k.a. the [[New York Mercantile Exchange]] building).

==== 200 West Street ====
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[[File:Goldman Sachs Tower 200 West Street Battery Park City.jpg|thumb|upright|200 West Street, from Murray Street, looking west]]
200 West Street is the location of the global headquarters of [[Goldman Sachs]], an [[investment banking]] firm. A {{convert|749|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}}, 44-story building located on the west side of [[West Side Highway|West Street]] between [[Vesey Street|Vesey]] and Murray Streets, it is north of Brookfield Place and the [[Conrad Hotels]], across the street from the [[Barclay-Vesey Building|Verizon Building]], and diagonally opposite the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]]. It is distinctive for being the only office building in the northern section of Battery Park City.<ref>Hill, John. ''A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture'' New York: Norton, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-393-73326-6}}. p.28</ref> It started construction in 2005 and opened in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303828304575180581255747658?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks|title=Goldman Sachs's New Palace Creates Princes, Serfs|date=April 16, 2010|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 17, 2010|first=Susanne|last=Craig|archive-date=August 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825042159/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303828304575180581255747658?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks|url-status=live}}</ref>