The land lot is shaped irregularly, with frontage on seven streets: Stone Street to the south Broadway and Whitehall Street, along Bowling Green, to the west Beaver Street and Marketfield Street to the north and New Street and Broad Street to the east. The site was formerly occupied by the headquarters of the New York Produce Exchange.Ģ Broadway is in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, along the eastern side of Bowling Green. The building was renovated after the MTA leased all the space in 1998, although the project encountered high costs and several delays.
After the building became mostly vacant during the early 1990s, Tamir Sapir purchased 2 Broadway in 1995. Olympia and York acquired 2 Broadway in 1976 and the underlying land in 1983. The original tenants were largely financial firms, while the Produce Exchange owned the land under the building and occupied some lower floors. Emery Roth & Sons were selected to be the architects when Uris Buildings Corporation took over the project. Plans for the skyscraper date to 1953, when William Lescaze devised plans to replace the Produce Exchange Building. Post's New York Produce Exchange building, which was completed in 1884. The site was previously occupied by George B.
The facade is covered in blue-green tinted glass, which dates from a 1999 redesign by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It fills most of the lot, with the building rising in triple setbacks.
The building is on a site bounded by Broadway and Whitehall Street to the west, Beaver Street to the north, and Stone Street to the south. 2 Broadway serves as the headquarters for some of the MTA's subsidiary agencies. The 32-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons and constructed from 1958 to 1959, contains offices for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Financial District, Manhattan, New York CityĤ0☄2′16″N 74☀0′47″W / 40.7045°N 74.0130°W / 40.7045 -74.0130Ģ Broadway is an office building at the south end of Broadway, near Bowling Green Park, in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.
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