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Bloomberg campaign moves headquarters to Times Square

He’ll be making use of some of the old New York Times building.

By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO

Mike Bloomberg’s rapidly expanding presidential campaign is moving to Times Square, setting up its headquarters at the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street.

The relocation — from the building that historically housed Bloomberg Philanthropies — comes as the billionaire self-funder and former New York mayor’s campaign pushes past 300 staffers at his headquarters and more than 200 more now active in the states, officials confirmed.

Bloomberg’s new offices, first reported by POLITICO and part of an email he planned to share with staffers Monday, includes an open layout with a desk out in the open for Bloomberg, a move in keeping with his ethos as a businessman and mayor.

In another throwback move, the space spread out across the entire eighth floor (two floors above the first-through-sixth floors owned by presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner) will also feature several countdown clocks showing the days, hours, minutes and seconds to Super Tuesday and the General Election — a nod to his unorthodox strategy to skip the first four states.

Rooms and conference spaces will be named after states and include the number of delegates each state sends to the Democratic National Convention.

Bloomberg also made some operational news by saying how he would run his White House. He’d turn the historically guarded East Room into an open office environment — “where I’ll sit side by side with our team.” And he’d use the Oval Office for some official functions — “never for tweeting” — but added: “The rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: With the team.”

“In sports, the coach or manager is right there with the players, giving directions, drawing on white boards, huddling during timeouts, motivating and inspiring — and picking someone up when they’ve made a mistake,” he wrote, adding another unsubtle dig at Donald Trump. “Managers in every organization should be performing those same roles. Walls just get in the way, by stifling communication and making collaboration more difficult. Some people like to build walls. I like to tear them down.”