Goldman Sachs is building a new
headquarters building which will carry the address 200 West Street. It’s
on the west side of the street, on the block between Vesey and Murray. But if
you plug the address into Google Maps, say, you’ll be directed a couple of blocks
north, to the east side of the street at the intersection with Harrison. (One
block further north still, and you’d be at the back door of Citigroup.) It turns
out that "200 West Street" is what’s known as a "vanity
address", a bit like "4 Times Square". So what was the original
address, which Goldman didn’t like?
The most recent application that Borelli approved came from Goldman Sachs,
which is building new headquarters in Battery Park City, across from the World
Trade Center site. “It’s on Route 9A, which is the West Side Highway,
in front of what is technically Marginal Street,” he said, turning to
a giant map of Manhattan that was mounted above his desk. “The everyday
person would never know that Marginal Street exists, because, physically,
it’s a highway.”
Wouldn’t an address on "Marginal Street" be, like, the best address
ever for an investment bank?