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:
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West 66th Street Appeal: How We Will Beat the Voids
West 66th Street Appeal: How We Will Beat the Voids Long, long ago, in a land (not so) far, far away... In January of 2015 LW! began monitoring the development at 50 West 66th St. and challenging the loopholes that resulted in its design. This was never a fight about...
News on ABC: Special Report
We interrupt your day with this important announcement: Following the July 2018 news that the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is leaving the UWS, LW! explored development potentials. REVIEW OUR FINDINGS What's the Big Deal? ABC has been an UWS neighbor since 1948...
STILL GOING: Stopping the Copper Top at 50 West 66th Street
Year 6, and LW! continues the MARCH for you. On December 7th, 2020 LANDMARK WEST! filed our Article 78 asking the NY State Supreme Court to review the BSA's 2-2 tie decision to allow HUGE mechanical void floors to jack up the height of the proposed building at 50 W....
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
