Skyscrapers in Bowling Green

Broadway, north from Bowling Green to Exchange Alley as seen from the U.S. Custom House and across the Bowling Green. Photograph taken before 1930 considering that the Columbia Building, on the northwest corner of Morris Street and Broadway, was replaced that year by the Art Deco tower of 29 Broadway. The Harriman Building, constructed between 1926 and 1928, is seen at 39 Broadway. Photo by Ewing Galloway. Source: New York Public Library.

The Standard Oil Building is on the right, corner with Beaver Street, after its expansion in the 1920s. The 23-story Standard & Poor's Building (or Cunard Building) at 25 Broadway, was completed in 1921.