8 Spruce Street - Beekman Tower - by Frank Gehry

**ZippyTheChimp** · April 6th, 2012, 08:37 PM

**manhattanscout** · April 6th, 2012, 08:54 PM

Weather you like it or not: It's a different design which makes the skyline diverse and interesting.

**lofter1** · April 6th, 2012, 09:41 PM

LowerMnahattan.info incorrectly claims the plaza is now open (I went by today to check it out, but the plywood topped with an expanse of orange kettling-screen -- made so popular as a people controller & entrapper by the NYPD during interactions with OWS supporters -- is still up along both Spruce & Beekman and there's no access to the plaza) ...

8 Spruce Street Pedestrian Plaza Opens

April 4, 2012

One of the citys tallest residential buildings, 8 Spruce Street, continues to perform finishing work inside the building and at street level. This week, developer Forest City Ratner opened the plaza on the towers west side, which serves as a pedestrian passageway from Beekman to Spruce Street, and offers benches, seating, decorative paving, and landscaping. Nearby on Beekman Street, sidewalk grates are being replaced and the sidewalk reopened later this spring. Full building fit-out will be complete in September.

**Sherpa** · April 7th, 2012, 01:26 PM

Feel free to use without any restrictions

**kz1000ps** · April 7th, 2012, 06:01 PM

**kz1000ps** · April 8th, 2012, 07:16 PM

**londonlawyer** · April 9th, 2012, 07:41 AM

Magnificent. This and 56 Leonard will be great bookends to the north end of downtown.

**tone99loc** · April 20th, 2012, 08:56 PM

amazing pics

**Ed007Toronto** · April 23rd, 2012, 11:27 AM

Has anybody been able to get a picture of the entrance to 8 Spruce?

**lofter1** · April 23rd, 2012, 11:17 PM

The entrance is a long passageway between orange bricks, with a covered driveway alongside.

**Derek2k3** · April 24th, 2012, 10:42 PM

**BStyles** · April 25th, 2012, 04:50 AM

It looks a gazillion feet taller than 1WTC.

**londonlawyer** · April 26th, 2012, 07:25 AM

I walked out of the City Hall subway stop the other day, looked up, and was greeted by this masterpiece. It was almost as nice as it would be to see Kim Kardashian and Sofia Vergara kissing.

**Derek2k3** · May 2nd, 2012, 02:47 PM

Netting comes off neighbor next door. Seems to have been cleaned repointed.

View down Nassau street:

Nothing going on at 33 Beekman yet.

**Stroika** · May 3rd, 2012, 05:08 AM

Great pictures, Derek. The Beekman makes everything around it shine: that's the only sympathetic view I've ever glimpsed of the Pace building, and the newly repointed Beaux-Arts tower looks fantastic.

Now, if only somebody could get to work razing Southbridge Towers and the Verizon Building, we might have a nice little micro-ecology around the Brooklyn Bridge.