165 Halsey Street

165 Halsey Street was initially built in 1912 as an eight-story, flagship store of Bamberger's to expand the operations from its original store across Halsey Street. It was expanded twice in 1922 and 1929 to become a 14-story building with a total floor area of . The building address was 109-135 Market Street. After Bamberger's expanded its operations to suburban stores, some parts of the building were converted to an office space and the building became the headquarters of Bamberger's. After R. H. Macy & Co. took over Bamberger's, the operations in New Jersey stores retained the Bamberger's name. As the sales continued to decline at the Newark location and Macy's New York and New Jersey merged their operations, the building lost the headquarters status and the store itself was renamed Macy's. In 1992, Macy's closed the Newark store and the building remained vacant until 1996. ==Colocation center==

After the closure in 1992, the building stayed vacant until October 1996. Samuel Jemal saw a potential of retrofitting the building into a major telecommunication center. The building was built with sturdy construction and its large areas are suitable for large equipment of telecommunication switches and data center operations. The building became known as 165 Halsey Street after the conversion. By 2004, many other telecommunication companies including Verizon Communications and Qwest had moved in. The tenants of 165 Halsey Street are large telecommunication companies, colocation providers and data center providers: • AboveNet • BT America • Centurylink • Equinix • IPC Network Services • Level 3 Communications • Lexent Metro Connect • NetCarrier • Sidera • Telecom Italia • Verizon Business • XO Communications • Zayo Group Meet-me rooms The owner of 165 Halsey Street created the first meet-me room to provide cross connection services in 2000 and the business has since expanded. In 2016, the fifth meet-me room was created. It was the first time that the facility offered DC power to supply directly to the equipment. , there are six meet-me rooms on five floors of the building with a total floor area of more than There are four internet exchange points at the building: DE-CIX New York, NetIX, NYIIX, and Equinix Internet Exchange. The building is also a principal access point of the Apollo optical submarine communications cable system crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Other Apollo principal access points in New York metro are 111 Eighth Avenue, 60 Hudson Street, and the cable landing point in Manasquan, New Jersey. Major financial exchanges have presence at the building. The Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) of Intercontinental Exchange (the operator of New York Stock Exchange and other global exchanges) that connects to more than 120 trading venues globally has nine access points in the United States. One of those is located at the building. Nasdaq Express Connect, a low-latency point-to-point network that connects Nasdaq data center with trading venues in New York, Chicago and Canada, uses two colocation centers at 165 Halsey Street and 111 Eighth Avenue to cross connect with the SFTI to access NYSE, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and NYSE National. CME Group has a network solution called EConnect to allow its clients to access its markets from New York and New Jersey locations. EConnect has point-of-presence locations at 165 Halsey Street, 111 8th Ave, and Equinix data centers in Secaucus, New Jersey. ==See also==