111 Eighth Avenue

111 Eighth Avenue is a full-block Art Deco multi-use building located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City.

At 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m²), it is currently the city's fourth largest building in terms of floor area as of 2014. It was the largest building until 1963 when the Met Life Building 3.14 million square feet (292,000 m²) opened. The World Trade Center (which opened in 1970-71) and 55 Water Street 3.5 million square feet (330,000 m²), which opened in 1972, were also larger but the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001. When One World Trade Center, with its 3.5-million-square-foot area, opened in 2014, 111 became the city's fourth largest building.

The building, which has been owned by Google since 2010, is one of the largest technology-owned office buildings in the world. It is also larger than Apple Inc.'s new circular "spaceship" (2.8 million square feet (260,000 m²)) headquarters being built in Cupertino, California.

1918 Eighth Avenue

1918 Eighth Avenue is a 500 feet (150 m) tall skyscraper in the Denny Regrade neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 2009 and has 36 floors, consisting mostly of office space. On August 25, 2008, the tower gained its first tenant, law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro. The firm leased 21,000 square feet (2,000 m²) of the building. The 658,744 sq ft (61,199.3 m²) building was developed by Schnitzer West, LLC and is now owned by an affiliate of JPMorgan Chase, which purchased it for $350 million after Schnitzer put it up for sale in May 2011, shortly after Amazon.com signed a long-term lease for more than two-thirds of the office space.

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Eighth Avenue

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Eighth Avenue (Brooklyn)

Eighth Avenue is a major street in Brooklyn, New York City. It was formerly an enclave for Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans, who have recently become a minority in the area among the current residents, which include new immigrant colonies, among them Chinese and Arab-speaking peoples. Parts of it have been colloquially re-christened Little Hong Kong in recognition of these newer communities.

The avenue starts at its north at Grand Army Plaza, going through Park Slope for 1 mile (1.6 km). It is interrupted by the Green-Wood Cemetery between 20th and 39th Streets, and after traveling nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) further south through Borough Park and Sunset Park, finally ends at 73rd Street in Bay Ridge.

Lapskaus Boulevard

Lapskaus Boulevard is the nickname of part of Eighth Avenue, in a historically Norwegian working-class section of bordering Bay Ridge, and Sunset Park. In the earlier part of the 20th century, the part of Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park was primarily home to Norwegian immigrants, and it was known as "Little Norway", or Lapskaus Boulevard as the Norwegians termed it. Later on, as Norwegians left, the neighborhood increasingly became abandoned by the 1950s.