Broad Street, Financial District NYC

The Broad Street looking north toward Wall Street, Financial District. Photographer: Max Henry Hubacher (1900-1989) dated May 9, 1955, Noon. Source: Collection of photographs of the New York Public Library.

Schwartz's Restaurant at 54 Broad Street, is on the left, out of the phot. It was still operating in 1959. The 48-story skyscraper 30 Broad Street, on the southwest corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place, was completed in 1932. The Twenty Broad (luxury rental residences) is under construction on the northwest corner of Exchange Pl. The site was formerly occupied by two buildings: the 22-story Commercial Cable Company Building, completed in 1897, and the Beaux-Arts Blair Building, completed in 1903.

The next buildings to the north are the neoclassical New York Stock Exchange and its 23-story Annex at 11 Wall Street, on the southwest corner of Broad and Wall streets, completed in 1922 on the site of the old Wilks Building, completed in 1890.

The old neoclassical building (truncated, center right) on Wall Street at Nassau St. is the Federal Hall Memorial National Historic Site, former U.S. Sub-Treasury building, constructed for the Custom House.

The pyramid top of the Bankers Trust Building at 16 Wall Street at Nassau Street, was completed in 1912. The twin towers of the Equitable Building, completed in 1915 occupies the block between Broadway, Pine, Cedar and Nassau streets.