Trinity Place, New York City

Trinity Place, looking south from near Cedar Street, on May 4, 1941. Photograph by Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964), from the New York Public Library.

Trinity Place had then a new look, after the Sixth Avenue elevated line was demolished about two years earlier. The four buildings on the west side of Trinity Place, from Thames to Rector streets, opposite Trinity Church, are:

The old Trinity School House, built in 1871 by the Trinity Corporation. It was sold to the New York University in 1919, that opened its Wall Street Division of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance on the venue in February, 1920. This historic building was demolished by the late 1960s. See below, a closer photo, showing the New York University building, taken on the same day by the same photographer.

The New York Curb Exchange building (renamed American Stock Exchange in 1953), at 86 Trinity Place was built in 1920-1921 and enlarged in 1929-1931. The site was formerly occupied by the American Bank Note Co. building until 1920, when it was demolished.

The 24-story Trinity Court Building at 76 Trinity Place was erected in 1927 and demolished in 2015 to make way for the skyscraper Trinity Commons.

The 23-atory United States Express Building was erected in 1906, on the corner of Rector Street. The building was sold in 1925 and three more floors were added.