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The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.
In 1926, the Bank of New York and Trust Company and the National City Bank, which owned 50 Wall Street, agreed to exchange ownership of 50 and 52 Wall Street. As a result, the Bank of New York and Trust Company had an L-shaped lot measuring 99 feet (30 m) on Wall Street and 125 feet (38 m) on William Street.
The company's true focus was banking, and it served as a competitor to Alexander Hamilton's Bank of New York, which previously held a monopoly over banking in New York City. [65] [66] [67] The Manhattan Company was headquartered at a row house at 40 Wall Street, [45] [47] which was the company's "office of discount and deposit". [65]
In October 2002, Bank of New York entered into an alliance with ING to gain a stronger footing in Eastern European markets. [44] In 2003, Bank of New York acquired Pershing LLC, the stock clearing unit of Credit Suisse First Boston for $2 billion. [20] [45] The Pershing acquisition made BNY the nation’s largest clearing firm for stock trades ...
Some of these buyers have poured money into high-end New York real estate to dodge taxes, launder money or transfer wealth to a jurisdiction where it is less easily forfeited. [13] Many of the apartments are only sporadically occupied, functioning as pied-à-terres or "safe deposit boxes" for valuables. [13]
161 Maiden Lane (also known as One Seaport, 1 Seaport, or Seaport Residences) is an incomplete 670 ft (205 m) tall residential skyscraper on Maiden Lane in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
63 Wall Street, originally the Wall and Hanover Building, is a 37-story skyscraper on Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1929, it was designed by Delano & Aldrich as the headquarters of Brown Brothers & Co.
In 1964, the Knox heirs sold the building to a group that founded the Republic National Bank of New York and used the building as the bank's headquarters. The bank acquired the neighboring lots in the 1970s and hired Attia & Perkins to design a tower to house its new world headquarters, which would wrap around the Knox Building.