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May 31, 2006
The First National City Bank of New York
415 Broadway. Founded in 1812, the First National City Bank of New York would go on to become Citibank, parent of multibillion dollar Citigroup. In 1919, eight years before this building on Canal St/Broadway was completed, Citibank had already accumulated assets of over 1 billion dollars. Now this great Deco structure lays abused by Sbarros, Payless, and counterfit bag merchants. A gem, gleaming, in the jostling density of Canal. Bring this beauty back from the brink. As C.J. Hughes pointed out last year in the Times, Banks can get good and profitable reuses in Manhattan. Forgotten NY has a great old bank page.
Posted by jmarston at May 31, 2006 09:33 PM
Comments
what's wrong with using it for a Payless & a Sabaro's?
Posted by: thfs at June 2, 2006 03:08 PM
nothing, if they were suitable stewards of this wonderful piece of architecture.
Posted by: Dave at June 2, 2006 04:35 PM