A tiered limestone-and-granite skyscraper on the East River edge of Lower Manhattan, completed in 1930 from designs by Ely Jacques Kahn.
At a glance
120 Wall Street rises 34 floors and 399 feet from a 23,000-square-foot lot at the easternmost stretch of Wall Street, where the street meets South Street and Pine Street. The tower contains 615,000 square feet of space.
History
Designed by Buchman & Kahn, with Ely Jacques Kahn as the architect of record, the building was completed in 1930 in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.
What you see
The tower steps back on three sides in the wedding-cake outline that New York skyscrapers adopted after the 1916 Zoning Resolution. The setbacks recede in shallow formations from a large 16-story platform. At street level, a five-story limestone base is framed with red-granite panels around wide commercial windows.
Cultural significance
The building stands as a late-1920s answer to zoning law, its massing shaped by the setbacks that became a signature of the era’s towers.
Key facts
- Country: United States
- City: Manhattan
- Coordinates: 40.705, -74.006
Practical information & getting there
The building occupies the eastern end of Wall Street at South Street and Pine Street, a short walk from the East River. The area is served by multiple subway lines in Lower Manhattan.
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