Verizon to Move 1,100 Workers From Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn

 

Verizon's headquarters at 140 West Street in 2008

Verizon announced on Tuesday that it would move 1,100 employees out of its headquarters and switching center at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan and offer half of the 31-story tower for sale or lease.
The employees, most in customer service, will join 300 colleagues next year at 395 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn. Over all, there are about 10,000 Verizon employees in New York City. That will not change, the company said.
For the time being, the company’s headquarters will remain at 140 West Street, a designated New York City landmark that Verizon has meticulously restored twice in the last 12 years: after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and again after Hurricane Sandy last year.
As for the slightly longer term, Richard J. Young, a company spokesman, said, “Our headquarters will remain in New York City.”
Source: The New York Times