| Height | 3 feet |
|---|---|
| Floors | 32 |
| Year | 1975 |
About 375 Pearl
375 Pearl (also known as the Verizon Building and One Brooklyn Bridge Plaza) is a 32-story telephone switching building at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. The building, which appears windowless but has several 3-foot-wide slits (0.91 m) (some with glass) running up the building, is the tallest building next to the Brooklyn Bridge and is featured in most photos of the bridge from the Brooklyn side. Verizon operations include a small DMS-100 switching system and a Switching Control Center System. When it opened in 1975 for New York Telephone Company, New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger decried it as the “most disturbing” of the phone company’s new switching centers because it “overwhelms the Brooklyn Bridge towers, thrusts a residential neighborhood into shadow and sets a tone of utter banality.” The building played an important part in recovering service to the Police Department in the attacks of September 11, 2001. In September 2007 it was announced that Taconic Partners bought the building from Verizon. Verizon will lease back floors 8 through 10. Taconic bought the 1.098-million-square-foot building (102,000 m) for $172.