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Financial District

In the area around ground zero, millions of square feet of new and repurposed space have substantially altered the character of the neighborhood in the last 10 years. More than eight million square feet of new residential space has been built since 2001.

Emblematic of this renaissance is the city's tallest residential building at 8 Spruce Street: 76 stories clad in wavy stainless steel, designed by Frank Gehry and dedicated to the proposition that hundreds of very rich people who do not already live high above the financial district still want to do so.

Another nine million square feet of space has been carved out of the iconic buildings of the financial district for more apartments and condominiums,sac longchamp. These residences are small, often trendy,ralph lauren, and always pricey. The glass-and-steel corporate bunker at 95 Wall Street has been re-imagined by Phillipe Starck as boutique housing ("Dwell95"). And 476 apartments have been jammed into Brown Brothers Harriman's solemn 1929 ziggurat down the street ("The Crest"). The reputed Russian spy Anna Chapman took a converted apartment in the refurbished 59-story former City Bank-Farmers Trust building.

All this has helped make the area around Wall Street into the city's fastest growing neighborhood. It has also become the city's richest, as measured by the average amount of unearned income claimed on tax returns: More than $400,gucci sito ufficiale,000 in 2008,ralph lauren pas cher,ralph lauren pas cher, suggesting vast amounts of accumulated wealth.

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