Chase Manhattan Bank
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Group of Four Trees and Manhattan Company Building
Made by wallyg
Group of Four Trees was commissioned by David Rockefeller and The Chase Manhattan Bank in 1969. It was Jean Dubuffet’s first public commission in the United States, and remains one of the largest public sculptures in New York City. A continuation of the Hourloupe series of paintings and drawings begun in 1962, the work is made up visually of multiple cells that connect objects, places, and figures. The viewer is meant to enter the image and merge the imaginary with the real. The placements of Dubuffet’s organic forms on Chase Manhattan Plaza creates tension between their rough simplicity and the angular buildings surrounding them, providing a comic forest within the architectural canyons of Wall Street. , built in 1928-1930 for the Bank of the Manhattan Co., is best known for its race for the world's tallest building neck to neck with the Chrysler Building. Designed by H. Craig Servance, along with Yasuo Matsui and Shreve & Lamb, it was built simultaneously with the rivalling building. Both made design revisions as they were being built to add height, first with a raised spire in the Chrysler Building, countered by a heighened pyramid roof in the 40 Wall St. Finally, the 70-storey building was topped out with the raised pyramidal top and lantern, escalating the height to 927 feet, the builders being certain that they'd won. But when the Chrysler Building's secretly-raised needle-like vertex, raised three weeks earlier, was finally publicized, 40 Wall was left to hold the second place in skyscraper rankings. (Although according to the Real Estate Weekly, the 282.5 m tall building still holds the title of the tallest mid-block building.) In 1946, 40 Wall Street was hit by a United States Coast Guard airplane in 1946 during fog. The crash killed five people, and the pyramidal tower was damaged. Though zoned for commercial use only, it has been said that Governor Thomas A. Dewey took residence below the observation deck for a time. In 1995, Donald Trump bought the building for $8 million and renamed it the Trump Building. He intended to convert the upper half of it to residential space, leaving the bottom half as commercial space. However, today it remains 100% commercial space. 40 Wall Street was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1998. Manhattan Company Building National Register #00000577 (2000)
NYC - Financial District: Chase Plaza
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One Chase Manhattan Plaza, completed in 1961, has 60 floors, with 4 basement floors, and is 813 feet (248 meters) tall. Built in the International style, with a white steel facade with black patterns just below the windows and Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chase Plaza echoes the Inland Steel Building in Chicago. The facade is adorned with anodized aluminum panels, mullions, and column cladding. The Chase Manhattan Bank president of that time, David Rockefeller, the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family, was the prime mover of the construction and the building's location, notably because many corporations had moved uptown, and the Financial District had languished as a result. One Chase Manhattan Plaza is currently occupied by the successor to the Rockefeller Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building
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York & Sawyer, 1919-1924. One of twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, and the biggest repository of gold in the world. I say a little more about this building on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door. National Register Numbers Federal Reserve Bank of New York: 80002688 Wall Street Historic District: 07000063
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the most important of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is located in New York City, with a secondary office in Buffalo, New York. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey, Fairfield County in Connecticut, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
A Group of Four Trees
Made by richdrogpa
Monumental sculpture by Jean Dubuffet, 1972 - In front of the Chase Manhattan Bank building, David Rockefeller Plaza (formerly known as Chase Manhattan Plaza - renamed on March 18, 2008), Wall Street Area, NYC - 080411_DSCF2375.JPG
Nearest places of interest:
| Financial District 60 Broad St. Deutsche Bank 2 Gold Street | Woolworth Building Southbridge Towers Equitable Building One Liberty Plaza |
