Current Status: Completed
40 Wall Street Vital Stats
Address: 40 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 (Community Board 1)
Type: Commercial
Name: 40 Wall Street; The Trump Building; Bank of Manhattan
Construction: Begun 1929; Completed 1930
Design Architect: H. Craig Severance
Executive Architect: _
Developer: Bank of Manhattan Trust
Builder: _
Height: 927 feet (283 meters); 72 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,061,286 square feet; 98,597 square meters
Site Area: 34,360 square feet; 3,192 square meters
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
Superlatives: Stood as the world’s tallest building from April, 1930 to May 27th, 1930.
Loopholes Exploited:
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
What Happened Yesterday at the BSA: Defining the Realm of the Absurd
On Tuesday, August 6th neighbors, friends, electeds and lawyers from across the Upper West Side gathered on all too familiar ground--the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA). The goal? To decipher whether or not 36 West 66th Street (aka 50 West 66th Street) complies...
An ‘artful manipulation of the rules’ to inhibit the community
A local community board is the first set of boots on the ground calling out developer Wolkoff for trying to sneak in additional units and floors at the 11th hour of a standing application. The resounding sense that developers do not need to follow the rules that apply...
The Development Driving a Wedge Through the UWS
We've told you about how A new breed of skyscraper threatens to devastate the fabric of New York* and now, after over four years of following West 66th Street, a home-grown "E.T.," we have our first opportunity to publicly speak out at a city agency hearing regarding...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
