Back to the construction work at the interior of 15 Broad Street, which was picking up speed in the late summer and fall of 1927. First, a beautiful display of plumbing geometry and asbestos pipe wrap at the “pipe offset, 2nd floor”:
Next up, a “coal tunnel,” either to move coal from the delivery chute (i’m going to assume on Exchange Place, which was far less heavily trafficked both then and now) to storage or from storage to the boiler room. Note the narrow-gage railroad tracks for coal cars and, in the foreground, the frame to hold a turntable where the tracks take a right-angle bend.
August 22, steel plating lining the walls of the vault:
And not quite two months later, the vault door:
Also from October, some mystery plumbing (pneumatic tubes maybe?) that will be buried in the fill layer on top of the already-complete 20th floor slab:
Black iron for the hung ceiling in the public banking hall:
And pretty stone finish on the steel columns in the public banking hall:
Part 1: here.
Part 2: here.
Part 3: here.
Part 4: here.
Part 5: here.
Part 6: here.
Part 7: here.
Part 8: here.
Part 9: here.
Credit for the photos: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Equitable Trust Company Building” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1927.
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