200 Liberty Street, formerly known as One World Financial Center, is one of four towers that comprise the Brookfield Place complex in the Financial District of

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. Rising 40 floors and , it is situated between the

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and the World Trade Center. The building is on Liberty Street between South End Avenue and

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. The building opened in 1986 as part of the World Financial Center and was designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates. It has a leasable area of . Similarly to other WFC buildings it has a unique roof which is a

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. It is connected to the rest of the complex by a skybridge over Liberty Street. The building is located across the street from the

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and was significantly damaged in the

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. The initial dust cloud and other explosions shattered many windows, heavily damaging nearby Winter Garden Atrium and other buildings of the World Financial Center complex. It was closed for several months and reopened in 2002 after extensive restoration. It was renamed 200 Liberty Street when the rest of the complex became Brookfield Place in 2014.

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* Dow Jones & Co. *

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* National Financial Services *

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* Royal Alliance *

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* Willis Towers Watson

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