Surrounding Architecture
The urbanistic value of the space is created by the skyscrapers and other structures that surround it (listed clockwise):
- Alexander Hamilton US Custom House to the south
- 1 Broadway, the United States Lines-Panama Pacific Line Building
- Bowling Green Building, 11 Broadway (1895–98, W. and G. Audsley, later serving the White Star Line)
- Cunard Building, 25 Broadway (1921, Benjamin Wistar Morris, with Carrère and Hastings)
- 26 Broadway, the Standard Oil Company Building, on the east side of Broadway, facing the Cunard building (1922, Carrère and Hastings with Shreve, Lamb & Blake)
- 2 Broadway — the one stylistic intruder — (1959–60, Emery Roth & Sons, resurfaced in 1999 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), a Modernist glass wall that replaced the distinguished Produce Exchange Building (1881–84, George B. Post), as an "acceptable sacrifice" intended to spur financial district rebuilding
Read more about this topic: Bowling Green (New York City)
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