A Variety Pack

I haven’t done one of these for a while and it’s too hot to think, so here goes: the view east on Bridge Street from Whitehall Street gives a nice selection of lower Manhattan building types.

A: One Whitehall Street. 1962, 23-story office building with a glass and metal-panel curtain wall. I’m pretty sure it’s steel-framed, but not certain. Its most famous tenant is probably Topps, the baseball-card company.

B: 90 Broad Street. 1932, steel-frame office building with a largely limestone facade. Built for Stone & Webster, the engineering company; its most famous tenant is obviously Old Structures Engineering.

C: 32 Old Slip. 1987 steel-frame office building with a firehouse embedded in its base. Most notable for being on the site of the 1930s US Treasury Assay Office.

D: 27 Whitehall Street. A 1921 steel-framed baby office building: 8 stories and with floors barely 2200 square feet each.

E: 25 Bridge Street, A mid-1800s loft building long since converted to a saloon. The exterior has been fiddled with quite a bit, so it’s hard to get a good sense of its original appearance, but here it is in 1940.

F: Part of 55 Water Street. This is the 15-story secondary wing, just north of the main 53-story portion. Office building completed in 1972, steel-framed, with a pre-cast concrete curtain wall.

G: The lot-line wall of 80 Pearl Street, an 11-story steel-frame office building from 1929.

H: One Coenties Slip. An 1831 loft building converted to apartments. Given its age and its location next to the East River docks, it may have been an actual sail loft, where ships sails were sewn.