225 Liberty Street, formerly Two World Financial Center, is one of four towers that comprise the Brookfield Place complex in the

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. Rising 44 floors and , it is situated between the

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and the World Trade Center. Though the building has a nominal address on Liberty Street, its most prominent facade is on

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between

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and

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s. The building opened in 1987 as part of the World Financial Center and was designed by Haines Lundberg Waehler and Cesar Pelli & Associates. The building is home to Meredith,

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, Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.,

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, McElroy, Deutsch, Virtusa, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP,

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, and several divisions of

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, among other companies. It is an example of

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, as designed by

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& Associates, and contains over of rentable office area. It connects to the rest of the World Financial Center complex through a courtyard leading to the

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, a dramatic glass-and-steel public space with a 120-foot vaulted ceiling under which there is an assortment of trees and plants, including sixteen 12-meter palm trees from the

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. The building was renamed from Two World Financial Center when the rest of the complex was renamed Brookfield Place in 2014. 225 Liberty Street and its neighbors had been severely damaged by the falling debris when the World Trade Center towers collapsed due to the

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. The building had to be closed for repairs until May 2002 as a result of damage sustained in the terrorist attacks.

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* {{World Trade Center 1987 establishments in New York City Office buildings completed in 1987 Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan Brookfield Place (New York City) Brookfield Properties buildings Battery Park City West Side Highway

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