With all the waves around the biographical film about the scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the new work of Christopher Nolan, and with Cillian Murphy in the lead role, the interest in the history behind the creation of the Atomic Bomb, the famous Manhattan Project. The name, as it is easy to deduce, came from the fact that every atomic program was born in New York, in the offices of the Federal Government in Tribeca. And how about that? Today the address is one of the most expensive in Manhattan, with the building where it all began transformed into a residential building. That’s right, it’s possible to live where they created the atomic bomb. And pay a lot for it!

Oppenheimer is based on the book American Prometheus, Kai Bird, and Martin J. Sherwin, released in 2005 and highly disputed by American studios, and it is highly anticipated because the film was recorded in the IMAX 65mm and 65mm format. It will recount the trajectory of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist known as “the father of the atomic bomb” because he helped to develop the first nuclear weapons and led the Manhattan Project. Graduated in Chemistry at Harvard, Physics at Cambridge, and Ph.D. in Germany, he was respected for his contribution to theoretical physics, nuclear and quantum mechanics, and for this reason he was recruited by the US Army during World War II. After the end of the conflict – with the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki – he began to try to control nuclear proliferation and vehemently opposed his former bosses, being politically persecuted.

The name of the nuclear project refers to the address 270 Broadway, where the North Atlantic Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers was located, more specifically, on the 18th floor. The building has 28 floors and was built in 1930. It is still a few blocks from New York City Hall, and at the time the military coordinated all military constructions both in the country and in Europe from there, functioning as an administrative support. Before the Manhattan Project, the internal name was “Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials”, but of course, the name is somewhat revealing, so General Leslie Groves, in the film lived by Matt Damon, changed it to “Manhattan Engineer District”, more later shortened calls to the Manhattan Project shortly before being transferred to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1943, where the bomb tests were done. Even long, the name “stuck”.

When the war ended, the building passed to the state government and is also one of the addresses of the famous “master builder”, Robert Moses. Until the early 2000s, it was a business address, largely offices for members of the New York Assembly and Senate, but. in 2000 it sold for $33.6 million, at the time, an expensive public property sale. After 9/11, the building (which is meters from where the Twin Towers were), and the works to transform into a residential condominium followed. 20 years ago, in 2003, 39 apartments between the 16th and 28th floors were offered for sale. That’s right, remember that the Manhattan Project office was on the 18th floor? There’s someone living there. Units range from 185.6 to 754.1 m2. And they don’t pay little… the rent is around 15 thousand dollars a month. Want to apply?

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