8 Spruce Street

8 Spruce Street is a rental apartment tower at 8 Spruce Street in Lower Manhattan, owned by Brookfield Properties. Designed by Frank Gehry and often called New York by Gehry, it is clad in rippling stainless steel that folds in vertical bays down its height, and on completion it was among the tallest residential buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The tower stands beside City Hall Park and the Brooklyn Bridge approach, with the Woolworth Building, Pace University and the Civic Center courthouses immediately around it. The Fulton Center, the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall 4, 5 and 6 station and the A and C at Chambers Street are all within a couple of blocks.

The tower was developed by Forest City Ratner and opened in 2011. It rises 76 stories and about 870 feet. Gehry varied the steel bays so that the folds differ from floor to floor, which means many of its roughly 900 apartments have their own layout and their own shape of bay window.

The brick base of the building holds a public school, the Spruce Street School, which serves elementary and middle-school students, along with space used by NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital next door. Residents have a large amenity package on the lower floors, including a pool and fitness center, and the upper floors look over the Brooklyn Bridge, the East River and New York Harbor.