This item forwarded from another list (and which apparently
> originated in a newspaper) calls Basking Ridge "historic."
> To many of us 195 Broadway would be historic. Basking Ridge was
> a johnny-come-lately and I remember the panic among Manhattan workers
> and how AT&T held driving lessons for employees from NYC.
> Wes Leatherock
> snipped-for-privacy@aol.com
> Verizon to pay $125M for AT&T's 'Pagoda' Offspring to buy former > telecom giant's HQ
> Tuesday, March 22, 2005
> BY GEORGE E. JORDAN
> Star-Ledger Staff
> Verizon has agreed to pay about $125 million for the sprawling Basking
> Ridge campus that once served as the historic headquarters of AT&T,
> according to five people with knowledge of the transaction.
> Verizon, the nation's biggest telephone company, eventually could move
> its operations center and up to 1,000 employees from Manhattan to the
> 10 interconnecting buildings in Somerset County, said the sources.
I think the "historic" appellation comes from the design. It is a pretty spectacular set of buildings.
LB