Canyon of Heroes, Broadway from Bowling Green

The Canyon of Heroes and its skyscrapers in 1929, looking north from Bowling Green, at the Custom House. Source: Museum of the City of New York.

The Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway is on the right. Bowling Green Offices, completed in 1898 at 11 Broadway, is on the left. It adjoins Cunard Building at 25 Broadway. The old Columbia Building is on the northwest corner of Morris Street, at 29 Broadway. The next skyscraper is Harriman Building at 39 Broadway. The Adams Express Building, erected from 1912 to 1914, is at 61 Broadway.

Canyon of Heroes is the section of Lower Broadway used for City's ticker-tape parades. The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park.