Broad Street, New York City

The Broad Street looking toward Wall Street, New York City. Photographer: Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Sponsor: Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.), dated July 16, 1936. Source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library (negative at the Museum of the City of New York).

Schwartz's Restaurant at 54 Broad Street, is on the left. It was still operating in 1959 and was the site of many business lunches. The New York Stock Exchange (with scaffolding, center left), The 23-story New York Stock Exchange Annex (11 Wall Street), on the southwest corner of Broad and Wall streets, was completed in 1922 on the site of the old Wilks Building, completed in 1890. U.S. Sub-Treasury (truncated, center right), Lee-Higginson Bank (right, curved) and in the back, the pyramid top of the Bankers Trust Building (16 Wall Street at Nassau Street, completed in 1912.) and the twin towers of the Equitable Building, completed in 1915 (occupies the block between Broadway, Pine, Cedar and Nassau streets.).