Origin
Built over the West Side Yard of the Long Island Rail Road. The rail-yard deck was a Bloomberg-era city plan; the financial-tenant footprint took off when BlackRock pre-leased 50 Hudson Yards in 2017.
Who works here
- BlackRock global headquarters at 50 Hudson Yards
- KKR, Point72 and other large alt managers
- Wells Fargo's New York consumer and capital markets campus
- Big Four accounting and Magic Circle / white-shoe law firms serving them
Landmarks
- 50 Hudson Yards (BlackRock)
- 30 Hudson Yards (Time Warner / Wells Fargo)
- The Vessel and the Edge observation deck
Three indices a local would build
Open the prompt box pre-filled with one of these and turn it into a transparent, rule-based index in under a minute.
- BlackRock's iShares core ETFs, replicated as a single multi-factor index.open in builder →
- Private-markets giants: index of the five largest listed alts (BX, KKR, APO, ARES, BAM).open in builder →
- Index of US-listed real-estate REITs trading at a discount to NAV.open in builder →
