Inside New Gooooogle's New Chelsea Oooooffice

Tuesday, November 15, 2005, by Lockhart

[Inside the new Googleplex NYC. View from SW corner looking toward Eighth Avenue.]

Leave the extra o's on for "Oh my fucking God." A special Curbed correspondent sends us dazzling photographic evidence of Google's forthcoming 311,000 square foot office at 111 Eighth Ave., 4th floor. We're talking mad square footage. Notes our correspondent,

The space stretches the entire square block from 15th St to 16th St, from 8th Ave. to 9th. It used to be occupied by Prudential Financial Services. You could probably host quite a sizeable party in there. Looks like they have a lot of work to do! I actually saw someone walking around in there today, so I think they are starting to build it out. I actually had to run out of there so I wouldn't get questioned. They take security pretty seriously in this building. Several weeks ago I was snooping around as well and there wasn't a soul to be seen.

After the jump, a complete tour of New York's new center of the universe.

With location captions from our correspondent...

This is standing near the NW corner (15th and 9th) looking east toward 8th Avenue.

Standing exactly in the NW corner looking toward 8th again.

Pit with freight elevator on the left big enough to lift a SUV up. Sets of doors on the right to god knows where.

Three more freight elevators on the north side.

Another pic looking toward 15th St.

· Google Moves to Chelsea [Curbed]

Filed under Commercial Real Estate, Manhattan: Chelsea,

Email this post to a friend

Comments feed for this post

Comments (22 extant)

WebMD and Nike are also in the same building. It is huge. WebMD was supposed to have the whole floor, but it doesn't, most of it though.

By Anon at November 15, 2005 2:11 PM

doubleclick and deutch advertising are also in the building.

By anon2 at November 15, 2005 4:18 PM

So is United Jewish Communities (used to be UJA). I think they have a whole floor.

By Bazuzu at November 15, 2005 7:00 PM

BN.com has a whole floor too.

AND, my father used to work in this building, like, 45 years ago, at the Emerson Radio Company. They assembled radios and loaded them onto those big elevators.

By Michael at November 15, 2005 10:44 PM

what's with the curbed watermark? affriad that someone is going to steal these?

By Bob at November 16, 2005 1:40 AM

Hey Bob, you misspelled your name, shouldnt it be "Boob"

By James at November 16, 2005 8:24 AM

For those keeping score at home this is the building that put Taconic (Bendit and Pariser) on the map. I think they sold almost all of it a year or two ago to a big RE syndicator but still manage the property.

By Eddie Fication at November 16, 2005 8:41 AM

Hey James,
You were right. Sorry for the mistake.

By Boob at November 16, 2005 10:29 AM

The building is a tier 1 internet and telco facility. The big transcontinetal and transatlantic data pipes terminate here. everyone (nytimes,forbes etc) has servers in data centers here. its wired into seperate grids and has diesel backup power. strange place. Anyhow i had to go over there to check some stuff out during the balckout and took these pics that appear to be of the same space google is in.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acreale/sets/1374826/

By casaubon at November 17, 2005 4:35 PM

10.

been there. deutsch advertising agency is oin ther wit h a whole floor. every other person has a razor scooter to get from one end to the other end. seriously.

By Anonymous at November 18, 2005 3:40 PM

11.

Hmmm, wonder who could've been the "special Curbed correspondent."

By Anonymous at November 18, 2005 5:58 PM

12.

Hmmm, wonder who could've been the "special Curbed correspondent."

By Anonymous at November 18, 2005 6:12 PM

13.

if it were Dennis there would be more words like "wicked" and plenty of (!!).

By boomer at November 18, 2005 6:33 PM

14.

That is some sweet, sweet looking office space. So fine. Where's the dentist office?

By joespade at November 18, 2005 6:55 PM

15.

It's God's office from "Bruce Almighty"! I thought that place was stuck in the matrix or something...

By copydiet2010 at November 20, 2005 11:30 AM

16.

whoooooooooooooooooo cares?

By Anonymous at November 21, 2005 4:54 PM

17.

I can just imagine the amount of drywall, paint, cabling, carpeting etc. to get that space built out. Immense construction costs.

By Roishe Cheng at December 7, 2005 2:54 PM

18.

Um so whats so special about this buildind? Oh Yeah NOTHING! But just incase anyon cares I'm madly in love!

By Spanky Chaulk at January 19, 2006 7:34 PM

19.

Where are they going to put all the dead jews?

By tito at January 24, 2006 1:17 PM

20.

BTW, those elevators you can actually drive 18-wheelers into. I'd hope Googlers would be able to ride and park their motorcycles in the loading bay ;)

By otis wildflower at April 7, 2006 6:03 PM

21.

Yeah we have tons of servers in this building, Sprint/Internap/Level3 are all in this building its a major peering point in NYC.

By someone at April 30, 2006 10:02 PM

22.

Tito, I'm not sure what you mean by "all the dead Jews" but you sound like a Nazi to me. I hope Google is looking out for you - I'd sure hate to think a Nazi was messing with anything important....

By Mordecai Aneilewicz at August 3, 2006 5:38 PM