| 120 Wall Street | |
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as seen from theEast River | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Wedding-cake style/Стиль торта |
| Location | 120 Wall Street,Wall Street,New York City,United States |
| Coordinates | 40°42′18″N74°00′22″W / 40.705°N 74.006°W /40.705; -74.006 |
| Current tenants | Concepts of Independence Droga5 Guttmacher Institute INROADS, NYC Lucis Trust & World Goodwill National Urban League Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship The New Press United Negro College Fund |
| Opened | March 1930; 95 years ago (1930-03) |
| Renovated | 2002 |
| Cost | US$12 million (1929) |
| Owner | Silverstein Properties |
| Height | 399 ft (122 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 34 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Ely Jacques Kahn[1] |
| Architecture firm | Buchman & Kahn |
120 Wall Street is a skyscraper in theFinancial District ofLower Manhattan inNew York City. It was completed in 1930.[2] The building is 399 ft (122 m) tall, has 34 floors, and is located on the easternmost portion ofWall Street, and also borders Pine Street andSouth Street. The architect wasEly Jacques Kahn ofBuchman & Kahn.[1]
The tower is tiered on three sides, forming the classicwedding-cake style outline emblematic of post-1916 Zoning Resolution New York skyscrapers. The setbacks recede in shallow formations from a large 16-story platform. Red-granite panels frame wide-paned commercial windows at street level as part of the five-storylimestone base.[3]
The building has 615,000 square feet (57,100 m2) of space[2] and occupies a 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) lot.
Greenmal Holding Corporation (Henry Greenberg and David Malzman) acquired the site in 1928 from the American Sugar Company.[4][5] In February 1929, the company obtained a $4,050,000 construction loan for the building.[6][7] The cost was estimated at $12,000,000, with the edifice resting upon a 51 caissondeep foundation.[8]
The building opened in March 1930.[9] The original anchor tenant of the building was theAmerican Sugar Refining Company.[5][3]New York Life Insurance Company bid $1,000,000 to foreclose a $5,569,605 lien against the skyscraper at a June 26, 1933foreclosure auction.[4] 120 Wall Street was the only major high-rise building on the East River downtown waterfront for many years until the post-1970s construction boom.
In 1980, the 120 Wall Company, LLC, an affiliate ofSilverstein Properties, acquired the building for $12 million.[2][10][3] In 1992, in cooperation with the city'sEconomic Development Corporation, Silverstein Properties obtained the designation of 120 Wall Street as New York City's only Association Center.[2][11] The designation creates reduced rents fornot-for-profit organizations. Tenants includeThe New Press,AFS Intercultural Programs, theNetwork for Teaching Entrepreneurship,Illuminating Engineering Society of North America,Pacifica FoundationWBAI-FM, theLucis Trust & World Goodwill, the world headquarters locations of theNational Urban League,Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation,The United Negro College Fund, theAlan Guttmacher Institute, theCenter for Reproductive Rights, andLambda Legal.[citation needed]Concepts of Independence, a consumer organization for the disabled, is also a tenant.[12]
In October 2020,Wells Fargo,JP Morgan Chase andCitigroup provided a $165 millionmortgage loan.[13]
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