1 Police Plaza
{{short description|New York City police headquarters}}
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{{Infobox building
| name = One Police Plaza
| native_name = NYPD Headquarters
| alternate_names = 1PP
| image = NYPDHQNewYorkCityNY.jpg
| caption = 1 Police Plaza in 2002
| architectural_style = Brutalist
| cost = $58 million
| location = New York City, New York, U.S.
| mapframe-wikidata = yes
| owner = City of New York
| current_tenants = New York City Police Department
| coordinates = {{coord|40.712204|-74.001676|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| start_date = 1968
| completion_date = 1973
| inauguration_date = October 16, 1973
| renovation_date = 1984
| floor_count = 14 (above ground)
| main_contractor = Castagna & Sons
| architecture_firm = Gruzen & Partners
}}
One Police Plaza (often abbreviated as 1PP) is the headquarters of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The building is located on Park Row in Civic Center, Manhattan, near New York City's City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Its block borders Park Row, Pearl Street, and Police Plaza. 1PP replaced the NYPD's previous headquarters at 240 Centre Street, approximately {{Convert|1|mi|km}} north of 1 Police Plaza.
Description
File:Broome St NYPD HQ 2008 jeh.jpg between Broome and Grand Streets]]
One Police Plaza is rectangular in plan and is an inverted pyramid in elevation. It is a 13-level, horizontally-oriented brutalist building designed by Gruzen and Partners.{{cite web|title=NYC Police Headquarters|url=http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC020.htm}} The building was dedicated on October 16, 1973.{{cite web | last=Kaufman | first=Michael T. | title=Parade and Moments of Nostalgia Mark Dedication of City Police Headquarters | website=The New York Times | date=October 17, 1973 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/17/archives/parade-and-moments-of-nostalgia-mark-dedication-of-city-police.html | access-date=October 17, 2024}} A {{convert|22000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} expansion project was completed in 2011. Lower Manhattan residents held a rally on August 27, 2008 near One Police Plaza to protest the addition, and tenants of three neighboring co-ops filed a lawsuit to force the NYPD to undergo environmental and land use reviews.{{cite web|url=http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/85418/lower-manhattan-residents-to-rally-against-nypd/Default.aspx|title=Lower Manhattan Residents Rally Against NYPD|website=NY1|access-date=December 1, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905185541/http://www.ny1.com/Content/Top_Stories/85418/lower-manhattan-residents-to-rally-against-nypd/Default.aspx|archive-date=September 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}
Located on the second floor of One Police Plaza is the Real Time Crime Center, an anti-crime computer network which is essentially a large search engine and data warehouse operated by detectives to assist officers in the field with their investigations. The Major Case Squad and the Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) are also located at 1PP.{{cite news|last1=Fahim|first1=Kareem|title=Center Gives Police High-Tech Help |work=The New York Times |date=July 15, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/nyregion/center-gives-police-hightech-help.html |access-date=June 29, 2016}}
Inside 1 Police Plaza, a room on the second floor affectionately called "The Shack" served as the police bureau office for local press outlets until 2024 when it was moved to a structure outside the building.{{Cite magazine |last=Klein |first=Charlotte |date=2023-12-14 |title="A Slippery Slope": NYPD Is Relocating Reporters From Police HQ to a Trailer |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/nypd-reporters-trailer |access-date=2024-01-12 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} Its tenants include the Associated Press, the Daily News, New York Post, The New York Times, Newsday, Staten Island Advance, El Diario La Prensa, NY1 News, and WINS Radio.{{cite web|last1=Moore|first1=Tina|title=Welcome to The Shack, our new blog from inside NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/shack-new-blog-nypd-headquarters-police-plaza-blog-entry-1.1625405 |work=Daily News |location=New York |department=The Shack |access-date=June 29, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103223348/https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/shack-new-blog-nypd-headquarters-police-plaza-blog-entry-1.1625405 |archive-date=November 3, 2016}} Its police counterpart is on the 13th floor, the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI). Also inside 1PP is the "Thirteenth Floor", the office of the New York City Police Commissioner.
Park Row closure criticism
File:NYPD HQ.jpg, 1973–74 (plop art) Cor-Ten Steel sculpture]]
Park Row, historically a major artery linking the Financial District to Chinatown and the Bowery, has been closed to public traffic since 2001.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/nyregion/24police.html | work=The New York Times | first=Cara | last=Buckley | title=Chinatown Residents Frustrated Over Street Closed Since 9/11 | date=September 24, 2007}} The NYPD asserts that this is necessary to protect its headquarters from a truck bomb attack. Chinatown residents were particularly frustrated at the disruption caused by the closure of the thoroughfare, especially nearby residents. People who live nearby argued that the police department had placed a chokehold on an entire neighborhood and that if One Police Plaza was such an obvious terrorist target, it should be moved from a residential area.{{cite web |first=Dave |last=Hogarty |url=http://gothamist.com/2007/09/24/park_row_paraly.php |title=Park Row Paralysis |work=Gothamist |date=September 24, 2007 |access-date=March 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521042339/http://gothamist.com/2007/09/24/park_row_paraly.php |archive-date=May 21, 2011 }} Members of the Civic Center Residents Coalition fought the security perimeter around One Police Plaza for years. Park Row reopened for foot traffic and MTA buses in 2005,{{Cite news|last=Rutenberg|first=Jim|date=2005-04-15|title=Park Row Is to Be Reopened To Pedestrian and Bus Traffic|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/nyregion/park-row-is-to-be-reopened-to-pedestrian-and-bus-traffic.html|access-date=2022-09-24|issn=0362-4331}} although only 200 buses per day were allowed on the street, and they had to pass through security checkpoints.{{Cite news|last=Wilson|first=Michael|date=2005-05-16|title=Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Park Row Reopened To Buses|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-park-row-reopened-to-buses.html|access-date=2022-09-24|issn=0362-4331}}
In 2007, the NYPD said that it would not be moving despite the numerous complaints from residents, explaining that they had tried to alleviate the impact of the security measures by forbidding officers from parking in nearby public spaces and by reopening a stairway that skirts the headquarters' south side and leads down to street level near the Brooklyn Bridge. The department also planned to redesign its guard booths and security barriers to make them more attractive, and was involved in efforts to convert two lanes of Park Row into a cycling and pedestrian greenway, which opened in June 2018.{{cite web | last=Spivack | first=Caroline | title=Park Row Bike And Pedestrian Paths Reopens After 9/11 Closure | website=Lower East Side-Chinatown, NY Patch | date=June 22, 2018 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/lower-east-side-chinatown/park-row-bike-pedestrian-paths-reopens-after-9-11-closure | access-date=October 17, 2024}}
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