Inside the Art Deco skyscraper that once serviced 200,000 landlines in Manhattan -- but that is now being turned into luxury apartments as the dying technology is stamped out
By Jennifer Smith, Dailymail.com, 21 October 2016 | Updated 22 October 2016
The Verizon Building at 140 West Street was built as one of the first Art Deco sky scrapers in 1927. Its 32 floors contained an enormous network of copper wires which connected New York's phones Most were sold in 2014 to property developers to turn into luxury condominiums worth up to $100million. Some of the old fashioned copper wires remain in the building and were photographed recently.
The Verizon Building in New York's Manhattan once serviced 200,000 landlines across the city. Built in the 1920s and with more than 1million square ft of space over
32 floors on 140 West Street, it was one of the telecommunications company's most bustling factories.-or-
Neal McLain