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MAY 23, 2011
Met Museum will take over Whitney’s uptown Breuer building; Woolworth tower being prepped for top floor condos
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will be taking over the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Marcel Breuer building on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street beginning in 2015. The Whitney had been talking to several nonprofit institutions about the possibility of taking over its uptown site, as it cannot afford to run two museums. Under the agreement the Met will occupy the Breuer building for at least eight years. Officials at the Met said the Breuer building, one of the city’s most important and prominent examples of Brutalist architecture, will be used as an outpost for modern and contemporary art from around the globe.
The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway—one of Lower Manhattan’s most iconic skyscrapers—is moving ahead toward the conversion of its top floors. The residential floors have already been divided into “upper” and “lower” condo space, and the building’s owners are expected to decide within the next 45 days whether the floors atop the 57-story landmarked building will be a hotel or rental apartments.
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