But ITT moved out long ago, and over the years 75 Broad became a multitenant office building. NY Times. There are very few buildings in lower Manhattan that were built before In December of that year a tremendous fire tore through the area , devastating everything, including many structures going back to the Dutch days of the early to mids.
However, a walk on South William Street, a short, curving path from Broad Street to where William meets Beaver will reveal a series of buildings that appear to have been built during the Dutch era, with stepped Flemish-style gables.
However the date of construction, , is conveniently displayed below the roofline. The two ends of Mill Lane, a short path between Stone and South William, honoring a long-vanished mill, is one of the shortest streets in Manhattan Edgar , between Trinity Place and Greenwich Street just north of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel exit, takes the title according to the people who measure these things.
Mill Lane is much narrower and less trafficked than Edgar, though, and may well be the least-noticed of any street in Manhattan. I was fooled by its redressing for a movie set, and I thought they had gone whole hog with the throwback treatment.
The interesting thing is that Stone Street, except for a chunk removed to build 85 Broad Street in , pretty much looks the way it did in the s, with one obvious exception. Long before Department of Transportation commissioner [in ] Janette Sadik-Khan began closing streets all over town to create pedestrian plazas and bike paths, Stone Street was closed to car traffic to create an outdoor food court and downtown Restaurant Row.
Even on the weekends, there is table service right in the middle of the street. The street can also boast some interesting wrought-iron work, including an elaborate fire escape. A mast that once held both a pendant streetlamp and an orange fire alarm light is still in place. The new story gray luxury living tower with gold trim at 15 William Street is called the William Beaver House , named for the two streets that intersect here.
A piece of the old Delmonico Restaurant can be seen at the left side. This is a Five Points still in place, as three streets meeting produce five corners. The line was founded in as a freight line, added passenger service in , and went out of business in It must have been something, though, before the boring metal front and glass doors were installed.
The bank published this extraordinary subway ma p in It was completed in by architect Henry Dougherty, making it a contemporary of the Empire State Building. It was the first skyscraper featuring double-deck elevators that have since been altered. In contrast to the Deco AIG Building, the rest of the north side of Pine street between Pearl and William is lined with darkly brownstoned Romanesque Revival buildings, most notable 60and The building has a 2-bay extension on its east side, finished in The LPC provides a complete description.
It was renovated for luxury living in This too has been given landmark designation :. In choosing the Romanesque Revival style for his building, Wirz used forms suggesting strength and durability, and gave the whole composition a highly individualistic interpretation. At Pine Street, the broad, round arches of the first story openings are characteristic features of the Romanesque Revival style. They are linked by groups of truncated colonnettes in polished granite.
The deeply set windows, the rough-cut stone found at several locations on the facade, the variety of materials, and the Byzantine-style ornament further distinguish this building as being in the Romanesque Revival style. About the Five Boroughs. English Spanish French Portuguese German. Doing Business? Back to Neighborhoods. Photo: Julienne Schaer. Throughout the early decades of the s, the area experienced a construction boom, with major towers such as 40 Wall Street , the American International Building , Woolworth Building , and 20 Exchange Place being erected.
On March 25, , the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village took the lives of garment workers, which would eventually lead to great advancements in the city's fire department, building codes, and workplace regulations.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication. The area's demographics stabilized, labor unionization brought new protections and affluence to the working class, the city's government and infrastructure underwent a dramatic overhaul under Fiorello La Guardia , and his controversial parks commissioner, Robert Moses , ended the blight of many tenement areas, expanded new parks, remade streets, and restricted and reorganized zoning controls, especially in Lower Manhattan.
In the s, a few new buildings were constructed in lower Manhattan, including an story building at William Street in A story office building at 20 Broad Street, a story building at 80 Pine Street, a story building at William Street, and a few others were built in By the end of the decade, lower Manhattan had become economically depressed, in comparison with midtown Manhattan , which was booming.
David Rockefeller spearheaded widespread urban renewal efforts in lower Manhattan, beginning with construction One Chase Manhattan Plaza , the new headquarters for his bank.
He established the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association DLMA which drew up plans for broader revitalization of lower Manhattan, with the development of a world trade center at the heart of these plans. Through much of its history, the area south of Chambers Street was mainly a commercial district, with a small population of residents—in , it was home to about 4, Construction of Battery Park City , on landfill from construction of the World Trade Center, brought many new residents to the area.
Gateway Plaza, the first Battery Park City development, was finished in The project's centerpiece, the World Financial Center , consists of four luxury highrise towers. By the turn of the century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street. Around this time, lower Manhattan reached its highest population of business tenants and full-time residents. When building the World Trade Center , 1.
Rather than dumping the spoil at sea or in landfills, the fill material was used to expand the Manhattan shoreline across West Street, creating Battery Park City. The result was a foot m extension into the river, running six blocks or 1, feet m , covering 92 acres 37 ha , providing a 1. In , the Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, , at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
Since the early twentieth century, Lower Manhattan has been an important center for the arts and leisure activities.
Greenwich Village was a locus of bohemian culture from the first decade of the century through the s. Several of the city's leading jazz clubs are still located in Greenwich Village, which was also one of the primary bases of the American folk music revival of the s. Many art galleries were located in SoHo between the s and early s; today, the downtown Manhattan gallery scene is centered in Chelsea. From the s onward, lower Manhattan has been home to many alternative theater companies, constituting the heart of the Off-Off-Broadway community.
On September 11, , two of four hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center , and the towers collapsed. It occupies a prime location in the Downtown District. Nice and comfy decoration, friendly staff, location downtown with good connection to all subways and Excellent location, loved the decor and our corner room on the 11th floor which was quiet with It features an underground pool and fitness center, as well as an on-site restaurant and spa.
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