{"id":224356,"date":"2026-05-08T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224356\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:08:30","slug":"how-a-half-empty-nyc-tower-became-the-hottest-office-on-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224356\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Half-Empty NYC Tower Became the Hottest Office on the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"elxqfl52 e1bc1vag0 css-qvq2sz-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Nine West 57th Street, a 50-story Manhattan office tower famous for its sloping shape and unmatched views of Central Park, has weathered a series of crises over its half-century history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elxqfl52 e1bc1vag0 css-qvq2sz-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The tower opened when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1970s. It absorbed tremors from the 2008-09 financial crisis, which <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702304252704575156800614960386?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\">left the building half empty<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine West 57th Street, a 50-story Manhattan office tower famous for its sloping shape and unmatched views of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1149,4982,15888,2889,88178,48331,157,7829,417,20781,88181,88180,15,9,24,49,1492,1493,56,63,65,64,7788,7798,7789,74480,88177,88179,1497,86662,901,1498],"class_list":["post-224356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-clothing","tag-clothing-textiles","tag-consumer-goods","tag-entertainment","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-l","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003513489","tag-loews","tag-manufacturing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-north-america","tag-northeast-u-s","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-photo-commission","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-stefan-soloviev","tag-summary-bullets","tag-summary_bullets","tag-synd","tag-textiles","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}