One Chase Manhattan Plaza eyed as landmark

One Chase Manhattan Plaza, one of Lower Manhattan’s first modernist towers when it appeared in 1961, has been nominated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission for consideration as a landmark. The designation is expected, now that the commission called the tower “among New York City’s most important mid-20th-century skyscrapers.” On Tuesday, the building’s plaza was renamed for David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase and the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association. The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed tower was the sixth tallest building in the world at the time of its completion.