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If you're like us, you cannot get enough information about the NYT's move into Casa Piano. Will they still keep the 212 area code? Who's managing food services? Will Bill Keller's giant tribal penis totem fit in the new space? Well, here's every detail you could hope for, in the shape of a memo sent out to employees. Eco-friendly (but not tree-huggingly so) information after the jump.

The move - with equal doses of angst and beige file folders - is upon us. This continuing feature will provide updates about our relocation to Eighth Avenue. Think of it this way: at least there's plenty of newspaper around for packing.
By KATHLEEN McELROY

Ahh, the move. Like Y2K in 1999, the process of relocating from here (43rd Street) to there (Eighth Avenue) is less concept and more concrete. Specific dates for departments have not been announced, but everyone will be moved between April 23 and June 18, with the new owners taking over this old building on July 1.
Hussain Ali-Khan, the Times' vice president for real estate development, met with the move coordinators like me from both the business and news sides last week. Our mission? "A seamless move without disruption to daily operations." The move coordinators, affectionately known as "emcees" are trying to turn that PowerPoint statement into reality while still keeping their day (or night) jobs. They assume the roles of logistics experts and liaisons, postmodern confessors and bad cops in getting their departments packed and unpacked.
Joining Hussain at the initial seminars was Dan Hoffman, of Richard L. Hoffman & Associates, a relocation management company that moved CNN, Time Warner and Bloomberg into their respective new digs. Hoffman will provide each coordinator with a project manager to individualize each department's moving needs before, during and after the relocation. But Hussain emphasized a few rules for one and all:
* You are packing your stuff into a rented plastic crate, not in a box (the company said it would take 40,000 cardboard boxes for our move). Your computer and printer will miraculously be moved by elves, but you pack your books, stapler, your reporter notebooks in the stackable, rolling plastic crates. They are a bit larger than a legal-sized box, about 2 feet long. The official crate supplier hasn't been chosen, so I can't provide photos.
According to Peter Putrimas, newsroom move guru, no cardboard boxes, especially those from Certified that have taken root unopened and unpacked around the newsroom, will be moved.
* No one is supposed to exceed the crate maximum: 16 crates per office, 6 crates per workstation.
* Department-wide stuff like personnel files, supplies, etc., will be moved as "common contents" and will not count against your personal crate total. But all of that stuff must also be moved in crates. The size of the file cabinets, etc., will be communicated to administrators as soon as possible. * The Times will not move your appliances or furniture - no fridges, no sofas, no microwaves, no personal file cabinets. We get what the company describes as "state-of-the-art, ergonomic" chairs, new desks and phones. The only way to bring your current chair is to get approval from Thomas Caffrey, the Times' ergonomic consultant, and forward it your move coordinator as soon as possible.
* If it's personal - a special mug, plant, your kids' artwork, an iPod - take it home before the move and bring it back yourself. The company is not insuring any personal items.
* If it doesn't fit in the new space, don't bring it.
* If it ain't tagged, it ain't being moved. Hoffman has created a color-coded, numbering system that is supposed to account for every single crate. If you do not work with your move coordinator, your stuff will be left behind. If you're on leave or physically unable to pack, work with your move coordinator.
Technically, move coordinators determine where staffers sit, but I'm sure many emcees, like me, will cede that responsibility to higher pay scales.
Other facts about the new building: * Your phone number won't change, and in the words of Hussain, "I'd like to welcome Digital to the 212." But hold off ordering new business cards and stationery because the company is consolidating its look.
* There will be secure WiFi throughout the Times' space.
* No parking garage deals have been set, but negotiations are under way. There will be bicycle racks
* The newsroom will be located on the second through fifth floors, with the Magazine on 6 and the Art department on 7.
* Every floor will have a fridge and snack area, run by Restaurant Associates (but will operating 24/7). No water coolers are allowed because all the wiring and heat are under foot.
* "Smart" elevators will herd employees by floor. You push a button in the lobby with the floor you want to go to and the system will tell which elevator to enter. Times employees will not be using the same elevators as the other tenants.
* Hussain wouldn't reveal the retailers in the building but he called them "surprises."
* The birch trees, which come from Princeton, N.J., in the lobby garden will be well-tended but unavailable for hugging.
* We'll be issued new ID cards but not necessarily new photos. However, one longtime employee has already written to me pleading for new photographs, explaining: "We no longer have the ingenue hair; there are spectacles where there were none before; hair color can be different; and we won't discuss how a long, thin face can suddenly look round and full."
While I will post any news regarding the new building (Hussain will soon be shipping out what he calls a more detailed "owner's manual"), I hope others, especially move coordinators, will share ways to make the move easier.