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52-643: The American Bank Note Company Building is a five-story building at 70 Broad Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City . The building was designed by architects Kirby, Petit & Green in the neo-classical style, and contains almost 20,000 square feet (1,900 m) of space, with offices and residences on the upper floors. The exterior consists of a main facade on Broad Street with two columns, as well as side facades with pilasters on Beaver and Marketfield Streets . The building

104-413: A "little domain of asphalt" fenced off by the police on Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street, after Police Commissioner McAddo took office. As of 1907, the curb market operated starting at 10'clock in the morning, each day except on Sundays, until a gong at 3 o'clock. Orders for the purchase and sale of securities were shouted down from the windows of nearby brokerages, with the execution of

156-454: A general office with a large oval mahogany counter, while the walls had wooden wainscoting under an ornate tapestry . There was a bank vault on the west end of the first floor, in the building's rear, while a mezzanine above the first floor had a mahogany handrail and a gilded clock. On the second floor was the president's office, which contained a plaster ceiling with east-west floor beams, as well as green leather furniture. The third floor had

208-406: A general workroom, with walls painted in a "pale terra cotta color", as well as red-painted woodwork. On the fourth floor was a board room with blue-and-gold decorations and indigo leather; a private office with mahogany wainscoting, mahogany furniture, and gold chandeliers; and a private dining room with wood wainscoting and a tapestry. There was a kitchen on the fifth floor. The original decoration

260-497: A merger of seven firms in 1858. The company's first headquarters and plant were at 55 Wall Street , where in 1862 it created a factory in the penthouse. In 1867, the company moved to 142 Broadway, near the intersection with Liberty Street . It moved again to 78–86 Trinity Place in 1882. Subsequently, the company began to grow its operations, establishing other factories in Canada and the U.S., as well as expanding its product offerings. In

312-399: A raised basement and water table made of smooth ashlar , and a string course runs above it. The second through fourth stories are faced with smooth ashlar, while the fifth floor serves as an attic and is also faced with smooth ashlar. An elaborate entablature runs above the fourth floor, encircled by a metal railing. Another cornice runs above the attic and contains gargoyle medallions at

364-542: A restaurant on the lower floors and moved the offices for his company, Goldman Properties, onto the upper floors. The building was given New York City landmark status in 1997, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) two years later. In 2007, it was designated as a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District , a NRHP district. The American Bank Note Company Building

416-573: A site bounded by Broad Street to the east, Beaver Street to the north, and Marketfield Street to the south. Nearby structures include the Broad Exchange Building to the north and 26 Broadway to the west. The plot measures 44 feet (13 m) on Broad Street by 66 feet (20 m) on Beaver and Marketfield Streets. Because of the Financial District's street grid, which is derived from the original Castello Plan for New Amsterdam ,

468-568: Is a north–south street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City . Originally the Broad Canal in New Amsterdam , it stretches from today's South Street to Wall Street . The canal drew its water from the East River , and was infilled in 1676 after numerous fruit and vegetable vendors made it difficult for boats to enter the canal. Early establishments on Broad Street in

520-720: The American Revolution , the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the Sons of Liberty . In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building. After a rebuilt in 1752 that added a meeting hall on the upper story, the Royal Exchange building was the location of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New York (later Chamber of Commerce of

572-762: The Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building at number 37, and the American Bank Note Company Building at number 70. From north to south, notable buildings include: Notable former buildings have included: The Broad Street station ( J and ​ Z trains) of the New York City Subway is located at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets. The downtown M15 , M20 and M55 buses all run on Broad Street south of Water Street (uptown buses use Whitehall Street). The M15 SBS crosses on Water Street in both directions. Cartouche Of

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624-643: The New York City Fire Department was built in 1736 in front of NYSE on Broad Street. Two years later, on December 16, 1737, the colony's General Assembly created the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York. The Broad Street building for the Fraunces Tavern was bought in 1762 by Samuel Fraunces , who converted the home into the popular tavern first named the Queen's Head. Before

676-582: The New York Curb Market Agency was established, which developed appropriate trading rules for curbstone brokers under "curb agent" E. S. Mendels . In 1910, Mendels testified before the Wall Street Investigating Committee on behalf of the curb brokers, when an attempt was made to dislodge them from Broad Street. In 1908, 70 Broad Street, between Marketfield and Beaver Street, became the American Bank Note Company Building ,

728-480: The 1600s included the Fraunces Tavern and the Royal Exchange . Later on the area became the center of financial activity, and all smaller buildings in turn were replaced with grand banks and stock exchange buildings. Most of the structures that stand today date from the turn of the 20th century, along with more modern buildings constructed after the 1950s. Broad Street, formerly called Heere Gracht ( canal of

780-605: The 1900s, under company president Warren L. Green, the company began looking for a new headquarters. The company purchased the lots at 70–72 Broad Street in May 1906. The new building at that site, erected to plans by Kirby, Petit, and Green, was completed two years later. The company also bought lots in the Bronx , where it constructed the American Bank Note Company Printing Plant . Kirby, Petit, and Green also designed

832-647: The 20th century. A curb market of curbstone brokers became established on Broad Street in the mid-1800s, growing in part out of the Open Board of Brokers , previously in a building on New Street established in 1864. The Open Board was located at 16 and 18 Broad Street until 1869. After the Open Board joined the Consolidated Exchange , Open Board members specializing in unlisted stocks were left without "a roof over their heads and took to meeting casually in

884-511: The Bronx plant, which was completed in 1911 and served as the company's printing plant until the 1960s. With these two facilities, the company was able to streamline its New York City operations. The American Bank Note Company housed its administrative offices in the Broad Street building until 1988, when the offices were moved to Blauvelt, New York . The building was then sold to the Bank of Tokyo. It

936-457: The Civil War. Upon the outbreak of this riot, Jacob B. Warlow and his police unit contended with a mob on Broad Street, with Warlow also helping quell other riots throughout the city from his station house on Broad Street. As the area became the center of financial activity, all smaller buildings in turn were replaced with grand banks. Most of the structures that stand today date from the turn of

988-475: The GCWP used the upper floors as apartments and the lower floors as lecture and meditation rooms. The American Bank Note Company Building was then put up for sale yet again in late 2009; it was originally listed as a mansion for sale at $ 45 million, though the asking price was then reduced to $ 25 million. Ultimately, it was sold to an unnamed Chinese construction and investment company in 2010 for $ 18 million. The structure

1040-611: The Merchants Exchange) was a covered marketplace located near the foot of Broad Street close to its intersection with Water Street . 30 Broad Street was once owned by the Dutch church which had erected the city’s second almshouse on the site before 1659. Broad Street was originally a canal first known as "Common Ditch" then later "The Prince’s Ditch". The canal was filled in 1676 because fruit and vegetable vendors, including Native Americans who came by canoe from Long Island , left

1092-651: The State of New York ) from 1770 until the Revolutionary War . The United States District Court for the District of New York was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789 , and it first sat at the Royal Exchange (Merchants Exchange) building on Broad Street. The 1835 Great Fire of New York destroyed whatever historical buildings were left from the early times of New Amsterdam/New York. Much of

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1144-446: The area littered, and fewer and fewer water craft were small enough to use the canal. The paths in front of the rows of houses by the canal were paved in 1676 as well. The road was first paved in 1693. The street saw a lot of change as the centuries progressed from Dutch to British rule and finally independent America. Among the tenants of Broad Street in the 18th century was bookseller Garrat Noel . The city's first firehouse for

1196-525: The attic, the side facades have openings that are of the same width as the windows on the lower floors. The original interior spaces were elaborately furnished. In general, the Shaw Furniture Company designed the furniture; the Black & Boyd Manufacturing Company made the lighting fixtures, and McNulty Bros. made the plaster ceilings. The building also included two elevators. The first floor contained

1248-559: The building that was the home of Equitable Trust Company . It also adjoined the J. P. Morgan & Company Building on both Broad and Wall streets. The curb brokers were ousted by a number of buildings as their numbers grew, until they ended up in front of the Mills Building entrance on Broad Street. The Mills building would be replaced by the Equitable Trust Building skyscraper in 1928. The Stock Exchange Luncheon Club

1300-609: The corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place . In the mining boom of 1905 and 1906, the Curb market on Broad Street attracted some negative publicity for the "wholesale use of the Curb for swindling". As of 1907, the curb brokers intentionally avoided organizing. The curb brokers had been kicked out of the Mills Building front by 1907, and had moved to the pavement outside the Blair Building where cabbies lined up. There they were given

1352-425: The corners. The Woodbury Granite Company provided the granite for the facade. The main entrance is through a set of glass-and-metal doors in the center of the Broad Street elevation ; it is accessed by a small staircase leading from the sidewalk, flanked by short pedestals. Above the doorway, a carved eagle is perched on a cartouche atop two crossed branches. There is a tall, narrow casement window on either side of

1404-522: The course of the day in convenient lobbies in the [financial] district". In August 1865, a reporter described the curb market in front of the new exchange building on Broad Street. "There were at least a thousand people on the sidewalk and street... Buyer and seller, speculator and investor, operator and spectator, agent and principal, met face to face, upon the curb and beneath the sweltering sun, opened their mouths wide and screamed all manner of seeming nonsense at each other, while their hats tipped far toward

1456-563: The curb exchange on lower Broad Street was a "roaring, swirling whirlpool" that "tears control of a gold-mine from an unlucky operator, then pauses to auction a puppy-dog. It is like nothing else under the astonishing sky that is its only roof." After a group of curb brokers formed a real estate company to design a building, Starrett & Van Vleck designed the new exchange building on Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan between Thames and Rector, at 86 Trinity Place. It opened in 1921, and

1508-654: The curbstone brokers moved indoors on June 27, 1921. When the high-profile New York firm Edward M. Fuller & Company went bankrupt in 1922, it had offices at 50 Broad Street. Next to the New York Stock Exchange, in 1929, a new 50-story Continental Bank Building was announced at 30 Broad Street (location of the former 15-story Johnston Building) to house the Continental Bank and Trust Company and various brokers. The building opened for occupancy on April 27, 1932. The now-famous sculpture Charging Bull

1560-556: The east. The famous neo-Roman facade of the New York Stock Exchange Building and its main entrance is located on 18 Broad Street. Opposite it is the former J.P. Morgan headquarters at 23 Wall Street and 15 Broad Street , the latter of which has been converted into a luxury condominium . Other buildings of note are the Broad Exchange Building at number 25, the Continental Bank Building at number 30,

1612-531: The entrance stair, as well as a shorter narrow window on the water table. The second through fourth floors on this facade contain two fluted , Corinthian columns, which support a metal-lettered frieze with the American Bank Note Company's name. The columns frame a recessed central bay with casement windows on each level. The side facades on Beaver and Marketfield Streets, to the north and south respectively, each contain five vertical bays . As with

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1664-567: The film Money Monster took place in mid-January 2016 in New York City on William Street and Broad Street. On December 10, 2018 was installed in front of the NYSE building the sculpture Fearless Girl . North of Wall Street, Broad Street continues onto Nassau Street . The two southernmost skyscrapers in Manhattan are 1 New York Plaza , on the west side of Broad Street, and 125 Broad Street , on

1716-451: The five royal titularies it was the prenomen (the throne name ), and the "Son of Ra" titulary (the so-called nomen name given at birth), which were enclosed by a cartouche. At times amulets took the form of a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs. Archaeologists often find such items important for dating a tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name

1768-415: The general contractor and Charles H. Nichols was the consulting engineer. The American Bank Note Company Building is one of several "hybrid" bank buildings erected in the early 20th century with both banking quarters and executive offices. The facades are divided into three horizontal layers by broad cornices above the first and fourth floors. The single-story base is made of rusticated stone blocks above

1820-649: The headquarters of the American Bank Note Company . Built in 1913, 23 Wall Street or "The Corner", is an office building formerly owned by J.P. Morgan & Co. – later the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company – located at the southeast corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. So well known as the "House of Morgan" – that it was deemed unnecessary to mark the exterior with the Morgan name. In 1920, journalist Edwin C. Hill wrote that

1872-531: The lords in Dutch) in old New Amsterdam . Originally an inlet from the East River , the canal was flanked by two solid ranks of three-story houses, with paths in front. Built during the administration of Peter Stuyvesant , the Broad Canal was the original Manhattan landing of the first ferry between Manhattan and Brooklyn , later the Fulton Ferry . The Lovelace Tavern , in business from 1670 to 1706 and owned by

1924-440: The main facade, the first story contains rusticated stone blocks. On the side facades, the three central bays of the first floor each contain large square window openings with aluminum windows. The center bays on the second through fourth floors have aluminum windows in each bay, flanked by large Doric -style pilasters , while the outer bays on each floor consist of flat ashlar masonry with narrow windows and ventilation openings. At

1976-491: The sale then shouted back up to the brokerage. The noise caused by the curb market led to a number of attempts to shut it down. In August 1907, for example, a Wall Street lawyer sent an open letter to the newspapers and the police commissioner, begging for the New York Curb Market on Broad Street to be immediately abolished as a public nuisance. He argued the curb exchange served "no legitimate or beneficial purpose" and

2028-465: The site is trapezoid-shaped. The building is a neoclassical five-story structure with nearly 20,000 square feet (1,900 m) of space. It contains office space and luxury apartments on the upper floors. It was designed by architects Kirby, Petit & Green , who based their design on their earlier structure for the Bush Terminal Company at 100 Broad Street. Hedden Construction Company was

2080-539: The small of their backs, their eyes strained fiercely and their arms waved wildly above their heads, from which rolled rivers of profuse perspiration." In 1877, a new organization the New-York Open Board of Stock Brokers commissioned the same building at 16 and 18 Broad Street used by the old Open Board. The Mills Building was completed in 1882 as a 10-story structure that stood at 15 Broad Street and Exchange Place , with an L to 35 Wall Street . It adjoined

2132-576: The street was destroyed again in the Great New York City Fire of 1845 . In the first two hours of the fire's spread, it reached a large multi-story warehouse occupied by Crocker & Warren on Broad Street, where a large quantity of combustible saltpeter was stored. In July 1863, the New York Draft Riot in Manhattan became the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from

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2184-564: The structure was sold to numerous owners, and renovated into offices and residences. The American Bank Note Company Building is a New York City designated landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District , a NRHP district created in 2007. The American Bank Note Company Building is in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City , two blocks east of Bowling Green . The building occupies

2236-472: The then- New York colonial governor Colonel Francis Lovelace , occupied part of the current site of 85 Broad Street; however, the bar itself only had frontage on Pearl Street. New York Mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt built his home in 1671 on Broad Street, on the future site of Fraunces Tavern . Built as a one-story building in 1675, the Royal Exchange (later known as the Old Royal Exchange and

2288-535: Was a "gambling institution, pure and simple". He further cited laws relating to street use, arguing blocking the thoroughfare was illegal. The New York Times , reporting on the open letter, wrote that brokers informed of the letter "were not inclined to worry". The article described "their present ground on the broad asphalt in front of 40 Broad Street, south of the Exchange Place, is the first haven of which they have had anything like indisputed possession." In 1908,

2340-549: Was a members-only dining club of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) founded on August 3, 1898 at 70 Broadway. It moved to the New York Stock Exchange Building at 11 Wall Street in 1903. The Broad Exchange Building at 25 Broad Street was built in 1900 to provide office space for financial companies including Paine Webber . At the time of its completion it was the largest office building in Manhattan. In 1903, NYSE moved into new quarters at 18 Broad Street, between

2392-485: Was erected in 1908 as the home of the American Bank Note Company , a leading engraving company that produced banknotes , currency , stamps , and stock certificates. The company had previously occupied several other sites in Lower Manhattan , and it developed a printing plant in the Bronx after 70 Broad Street was completed. After the company sold the American Bank Note Company Building in 1988,

2444-592: Was installed on December 15, 1989 beneath a 60-foot (18 m) Christmas tree in the middle of Broad Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to New Yorkers. After NYSE officials called police, it was later reinstalled two blocks south of the Exchange, in Bowling Green . In 2011, the New York City Opera moved its offices to 75 Broad Street in Lower Manhattan . Some re-shooting for

2496-461: Was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing good luck and protection from evil. The term "cartouche" was first applied by French soldiers who fancied that the symbol they saw so frequently repeated on the pharaonic ruins they encountered resembled a muzzle-loading firearm's paper powder cartridge ( cartouche in French ). As

2548-535: Was purchased for $ 5.5 million in 2004 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 's organization, the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP). The organization supposedly bought the structure because it was "one of the very few buildings in all of New York City that's oriented due east", and east-facing buildings were considered "spiritually healthy" under the Maharishi's principles. The building underwent $ 4.9 million in renovations, and

2600-471: Was subsequently heavily modified. As of 2018, the upper three floors each contain a full-story residential apartment with two bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living rooms, a dining room, a breakfast room, a kitchen, and a washer-dryer room. A private elevator serves the three suites. The American Bank Note Company , a leading engraving company and the building's namesake, produced banknotes , currency , stamps , and stock certificates. It had been formed from

2652-478: Was then bought by Murray and Irvin Reise for $ 3.5 million. The Reise brothers planned to turn the building into a "department store restaurant", with four fast-food restaurants at ground level, fast-food seating in the basement, and a larger restaurant occupying the second and third floors, as well as a kitchen on the fourth and fifth floors. The building was sold again in 1995 to Tony Goldman for $ 1.3 million. Goldman opened

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2704-480: Was then renovated again in 2015 and placed for sale the next year for $ 88 million in 2016. The building was listed for sale again in 2018 for $ 43 million. During the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City , the structure remained empty. Winta Asset Management, the building's owner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2024, allowing the building to be auctioned off. Broad Street (Manhattan) Broad Street

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