According to sources, Verizon is looking to move itsheadquarters out of New York City, and is looking at options inboth New Jersey and the Washington, DC area, specifically theVirginia suburbs. The telecom giant has quietly put its 40-storybuilding on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan on the market as a prelude toa possible move.

A Verizon spokesperson declined to comment on the possible moveof its headquarters, but sources in the brokerage community say thecompany is looking at multiple locations in New Jersey's Somerset,where the former AT&T campus is located, and Morris counties.Cushman & Wakefield of NJ, East Rutherford, has been marketingAT&T's former facility, but a spokesperson for the firmcontacted by GlobeSt.com similarly declined comment.

According to a published report, one scenario would includemoving Verizon's 2,800 staffers in Manhattan and combining themwith the 2,600 Verizon Wireless people currently working inBedminster, NJ, at the old AT&T site. Any move involving theGarden State would not affect Verizon's New Jersey headquartersoperation in Newark.