New York Academy of Sciences

Nice carpet

This must be Larry Silverstein's lucky day.

He's getting his very first tenant at 7 World Trade Center, and it's a smart little group: The New York Academy of Sciences.

H3 Hardy Collaboration will be designing the 40th floor for the NYAS. Architect Hugh Hardy has designed the Rainbow Room up in Rockefeller Center--plus, you may remember, Windows on the World.

The press release calls this "a major milestone in LoMa's revitalization."

LoMa?

More PR after the jump.  read more »

- Max Abelson

Maybe if one tenant is happy enough about moving to 7 WTC, it'll make up for the thousands upon thousands of square feet still unclaimed in the building?

Probably not.

Still, The New York Academy of Sciences, which is moving from its East 63rd Street mansion into the 40th floor of Larry Silverstein's 7 World Trade Center, is having a party in its new offices in May.

The press release is here; see a pdf of the postcard here. - Tom McGeveran

Larry Silverstein has made it official, after six months of rumors. This morning his company announced that about 50 Ameriprise Financial employees will occupy 20,000 square feet, half of the 39th floor, under a 10-year lease, starting this summer. Next fall, the only other outside tenant (Silverstein will take a floor also), the New York Academy of Sciences, will move in on the 40th floor. Given the time it takes a company to move out of its old place and outfit a new one, New Yorkers probably won't see that building fill up for many months after its official March opening, even if there is a rush on space. -Matthew Schuerman  read more »

The Upper East Side home of the New York Academy of Sciences has gone into contract for close to $30  read more »

Just as the New York Academy of Sciences was poised toaccept a $27 million bid for its mansion on Ea  read more »