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.
Courts Say No to Gerrymandered 200 Amsterdam!
READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS: “Court Deals Blow to Controversial Upper West Side Tower” Excerpts below from March 14, 2019 article by Daniel Geiger [pdf-embedder...
LW! Gives Testimony re VOIDS Proposed Amendment
On March 13th, the Department of City Planning (DCP) held a hearing on a proposed VOIDS Zoning Text Amendment. Read LANDMARK WEST's testimony below:[pdf-embedder url="https://www.landmarkwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DCP-VOIDS-Testimony_LW_12March2019.pdf"...
DCP hears testimony on Mechanical Voids
On Wednesday, March 13th the Department of City Planning held a long-awaited hearing on their Zoning Text Amendment to bring some predictability to the increasingly-abused mechanical void loophole exploited by developers to reach ever higher vantages. Initially...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
