FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             2001-102


         Relocation of SEC Northeast Regional Office

     Washington, DC, September 26, 2001 - Today the
Securities and Exchange Commission signed an agreement to
lease replacement space for its Northeast Regional Office.
The replacement space for the SEC office, formerly located
at 7 World Trade Center and destroyed in the September 11th
attack, will be located in the historic Woolworth Building
at 233 Broadway.  This location provides a long-term lease
of approximately 140,000 rentable square feet and will
continue the SEC's tenancy and presence in New York City's
financial district.

     The SEC currently anticipates occupying this office in
early October, although the specific date is not known at
this time.