User:Spiderbite17/Starrett-Lehigh Building

The Starrett-Lehigh Building is a building located at 601 West 26th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.

It was completed in 1932.

It was designed by Cory & Cory architects

It has 8 miles of ribbon windows alternating with plain brick bands

the freight distribution building originally had a railroad as its ground floor occupant

It is a New York City landmarked building

The 2.2 million-square-feet

Designed by architects Russell G. Cory, Walter M. Cory, and Yasuo Matsui in 1931, Starrett-Lehigh was originally a busy warehouse and manufacturing center, with railroad tracks streaming right into the bottom floor

Landscaped, wraparound decks are sprouting

Each floor is still equipped with passenger, freight, and truck elevators

In 1998, Helmsley-Spear sold the Starrett for $152 million to 601 West Associates, a group of investors who are in the process of completely gutting and redesigning the commercially zoned space for a reported $20 million.

glass-backed lobby designed by in-house artist Maria Hellerstein