To the 21st century media legions invading the zone below Chambers Street, add a proud brigade from the 16th century — Cambridge University Press, founded by England’s Henry VIII in 1534.
The book publisher, which is said to be the world’s oldest, is moving to Brookfield’s One Liberty Plaza from Midtown South.
Although the just-signed, nearly 40,000-square-foot lease is smaller than the pair we reported on Monday at Larry Silverstein’s World Trade Center towers, it just as strongly signifies the irreversible media momentum downtown.
As we first reported on NYPost.com, WPP Group’s GroupM, the global media investment management giant, is poised to add at least 150,000 square feet — and possibly up to 300,000 square feet — to the 515,000 feet it previously signed for at Silverstein’s 3 World Trade Center.