Jacob K. Javits Federal Building

Coordinates: 40°42′54″N 74°0′13″W / 40.71500°N 74.00361°W / 40.71500; -74.00361
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Jacob K. Javits Federal Building
Kahn & Jacobs[1]

The Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building is a U.S. governmental office building at 26 Federal Plaza on

Jacob K. Javits, who served as a United States Senator
from New York for 24 years, from 1957 to 1981.

The building is assigned its own

James L. Watson Court of International Trade Building
.

History of the site

A Gothic style Masonic hall was located at this site between Reade and Pearl Streets from 1826 to 1856, directly across from the original site of the New York Hospital.[4] This served as the home of the Grand Lodge of New York until its demolition.

Occupants

Agencies located in the building include the

field office is on the 23rd floor.[6]

Former President Richard Nixon rented a federal office in the building from 1980 to 1988.[7]

Artworks

A controversy developed over the artwork by Richard Serra commissioned for the plaza in front of the building, Tilted Arc. Commissioned in 1979 and built in 1981, it was criticized both for its aesthetic values and for security reasons.[8] It was removed in 1989, which resulted in a lawsuit and a trial. The piece remains in storage, as the artwork was site-specific, and the artist does not want it displayed in any other location. The removal and trial led to the creation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990.[8]

After the removal of Tilted Arc, landscape artist Martha Schwartz re-designed the plaza.[8] Other artworks connected with building include A Study in Five Planes/Peace (1965) by Alexander Calder and the Manhattan Sentinels (1996) by Beverly Pepper. In the James L. Watson Court of International Trade can be found Metropolis (1967) by Seymour Fogel and Eagle/Justice Above All Else (1970) by Theodore Roszak.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^
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    . Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  3. ^ Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2019). "Why do some buildings have their own ZIP codes? NYCurious". amNewYork. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  4. ^ "Grand Lodge of New York's Gothic Hall – Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library". Retrieved December 25, 2022.
  5. ^ "Field Office Lookup". USCIS. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  6. ^ "New York Field Office". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved on June 9, 2015. "26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor New York, NY 10278-0004"
  7. ^ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/09/20/Former-President-Richard-Nixon-is-moving-from-his-federal/2320590731200/
  8. ^ a b c d "Jacob Javits Federal Building & James Watson Court of International Trade, New York, NY" on the General Services Administration website

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