Harriman Building Entrance, 39 Broadway in 1928
Entrance of the Harriman Building at 39 Broadway in 1928. Photo by Wurts Bros. Source: Museum of the City of New York.
The 39 Broadway Building is a 37-story office skyscraper, completed in 1928, originally known as the Harriman Building. A sign of the Hamburg-American Line was put on the main façade in the same year (see image below). The building was designed by Cross & Cross. In October 1929, Fred F. French Operators bought the building.
Below, main entrance at 39 Broadway, showing tablets of some offices in the building: Underwriters Trust Company, safe deposit vaults. Terminal Barber Shops & Beauty Salon and Fleetwood Restaurant. Entrance at 37 Broadway, below, on the right.
Photos by Wurts Bros, about 1928. Source: Museum of the City of New York.
Sign of the Hamburg-American Line put on the main façade of the ground floor, in the same year the building was completed (1928). Photo by Byron Co. Source: Museum of the City of New York.
Harriman Building Entrance, 39 Broadway in 1928
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