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8 Spruce Street, previously known as the Beekman Tower and New York by Gehry, is a 899-unit residential skyscraper on Spruce Street located in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The levels under the rental units include a public pre-K to grade 8 school owned by the NYC Department of Education, a hospital, retail stores, and a parking garage. Designed by architect Frank Gehry + Gehry Partners LLP and developed by Forest City Ratner, the building rises 870 feet (265.2 m) with 76-stories. WSP Cantor Seinuk was the lead structural engineer, Jaros, Baum & Bolles provided MEP engineering, and Kreisler Borg Florman was construction manager. 8 Spruce Street is currently the 30th tallest building in New York City, and it was the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere at the time of opening in February 2011.

The Site
The one-acre (44, 286 sq ft) site located on the south side of Spruce and Beekman Streets takes up a little more than half the block. Prior to 8 Spruce Street's construction, the lot was used as parking for the NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital immediately to the east. across the William Street Plaza. The part of the Financial District in Lower Manhattan where 8 Spruce St is located is surrounded by shorter buildings, which meant constructing a tall building would offer views of the entire city. It is just east of City Hall Park and south of Pace University and the Brooklyn Bridge. Immediately to the west are 150 Nassau Street and the Morse Building (140 Nassau Street).

Rental Units
Above the elementary school is a 904-unit luxury residential tower clad in stainless steel. The apartments range from 500 ft2 to 1600 sqft, and consist of studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. All units are priced at market-rate, with no low or moderate income-restricted apartments. All units are rental-only; none are available for purchase.

School
The school is within the base, occupying 100000 sqft on the first five floors of the building. The facade is sheathed in reddish-tan brick. The school hosts over 600 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade classes. A fourth floor roof deck holds 5000 sqft of outdoor play space.

Hospital
The building originally included space for New York Downtown Hospital next door. The hospital was allocated 25000 sqft, of parking below ground. It was never used. As of 2016, it is a commercially-operated valet parking garage.

Public space
There are public plazas on both the east and west sides of the building, one 11000 sqft and the other somewhat smaller.

Street-level retail, totaling approximately 1300 to 2500 ft2, is included as part of the project.

Completion and Opening
8 Spruce Street opened in February 2011.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020, about one of every five units were vacant. The building's owners, Brookfield Property Partners and Nuveen, placed the building for sale in November 2021 with an asking price of $850 million. Bloomberg reported in late 2021 that Blackstone Inc. would likely purchase the property for $930 million, and multiple sources have confirmed the sale. Blackstone established 8 Spruce (NY) Owner LLC in December 2021 to serve as owner.

Critical reception
Early reviews of 8 Spruce Street were favorable. In The New York Times, architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff praised the building's design as a welcome addition to the skyline of New York, calling it: "the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen's CBS Building went up 46 years ago". New Yorker magazine's Paul Goldberger described it as "one of the most beautiful towers downtown". Comparing Gehry's tower to the nearby Woolworth Building, completed in 1913, Goldberger said, "It is the first thing built downtown since then that actually deserves to stand beside it."

CityRealty architecture critic Carter Horsely hailed the project, saying "the building would have been an unquestioned architectural masterpiece if the south façade had continued the crinkling and if the base had continued the stainless-steel cladding. Even so, it is as majestic as its cross-town rival, the great neo-Gothic Woolworth Building designed by Cass Gilbert at 233 Broadway on the other side of City Hall Park." Gehry designed both the exterior, interiors and amenities spaces, along with all 20 model apartments.

The building received the Emporis Skyscraper Award for 2011.