375 Pearl is a 32-story telephone switching building at the Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 end of the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...

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The building, which appears windowless but has several 3 foot (0.9144 m) (some with glass) running up the building, is the tallest building next to the Brooklyn Bridge and is featured in most photos of the bridge from the Brooklyn side. Verizon operations include a small DMS-100

DMS-100

The DMS-100 Switch is a line of Digital Multiplex System telephone exchange switches manufactured by Nortel Networks.The purpose of the DMS-100 Switch is to provide local service and connections to the PSTN public telephone network. It is designed to deliver services over subscribers' telephone...

 switching system and a Switching Control Center System

Switching Control Center System

The Switching Control Center System was an Operations Support System developed by Bell Laboratories and deployed during the early 1970s. This computer system was first based on the PDP-11 product line from Digital Equipment Corporation and used the CB Unix operating system and custom application...

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When it opened in 1975 for New York Telephone Company, New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City...

 decried it as the “most disturbing” of the phone company’s new switching centers because it “overwhelms the Brooklyn Bridge towers, thrusts a residential neighborhood into shadow and sets a tone of utter banality.”

The building played an important part in recovering service to the Police Department in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

In September 2007 it was announced that Taconic Partners bought the building from Verizon. Verizon will lease back floors 8 through 10. Taconic bought the 1.098-million-square-foot building (1098000 square feet (102,007.5 m²)) for $172.05 million, which amounted to $185 a foot when property was selling in Manhattan for $500 a foot. Other appeals of the building are its 16- to 17 feet (5.2 m) ceilings and 39000 square feet (3,623.2 m²) floor plan

Floor plan

In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a diagram, usually to scale, showing a view from above of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure....

s as well as the naming rights. The Verizon logo currently tops the building.

Taconic had announced plans to dramatically change in the facade in which a curtain wall

Curtain wall

A curtain wall is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep out the weather. As the curtain wall is non-structural it can be made of a lightweight material reducing construction costs. When glass is used as the curtain wall, a great advantage is...

 designed by Cook & Fox is to be built. The Times in reporting the news said:

Paul E. Pariser, co-chief executive of Taconic, said a reporter had told him: “ ‘Mr. Pariser, you have a challenge cut out for you — turning a G.E. dishwasher into an office building.’ I like that challenge.”

In early June 2011, Sabey Data Center Properties, the largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of data centers in the United States purchased the deed in lieu of foreclosure from M&T bank for $120 million, considerably less than what Taconic had paid a few years earlier. Sabey intends to redevelop the property as a major Manhattan data center and technology building. The building is now referred to as Intergate.Manhattan.

Chris Trapp, Vice President of Acquisitions & Leasing for Sabey said "as the few major existing data centers and carrier hotels in Manhattan are nearing capacity from space, power, and cooling perspectives, we view 375 Pearl as an asset uniquely positioned to offer a world class computing environment for those users with on-island data center needs. The building has all the bones – an abundance of power, a purpose-built structure, and tremendous prospects from a connectivity standpoint to be just that.”