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40 Wall Street
40 Wall Street, New York
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Quick Facts
City  New York
Country  USA
Year  1930
Height  281,9m / 925ft
Floors  72
Surface  120.774m2 / 1,300,000sq ft
Realisation
Architect  H. Craig Severance & Yasuo Matsui
Shreve & Lamb
Engineers  Starrett Bros. & Eken
Developer  Bank of Manhattan Trust Company
Building Info
Name  40 Wall Street
Category  Office Building
Alias  Trump building
Bank of Manhattan Trust building
Materials  steel structure
limestone
Address  40 Wall Street, between William & Nassau streets
Notes
Originally the headquarters of the bank of Manhattan
Renovated in 1996 by Donald Trump
Tallest building in the world for a brief period in 1930
Also known as The Crown Jewel of Wall Street or as the Trump building
In the fog, the building was hit by a US Coast Guard plane in 1946, killing four people.
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