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22 Cortlandt Street, 1936. This East River Savings Bank branch was constructed in 1933. Designed by the same firm, Walker & Gillette, as the National City Bank of New York on Broadway and Canal, the two buildings share a number of features. This Art Deco structure also includes stylized eagles surrounding the bank seal, towering over the main entrance of decorate metalwork. Today the building houses a section of the enormous flagship Century 21 department store.
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Havemeyer Building, ca. 1910. Built in between 1891 and 1893, the Havemeyer Building was a massive structure on a long, narrow plot on Church Street between Dey and Cortlandt Streets. Designed by George B. Post, who just the year before had completed the World Building, the city's and world's tallest office building, the Havemeyer was 14-stories tall with a footprint of 47 feet by 214 feet. It was described by Kings Handbook as "a majestic pile of architecture." Developed by Theodore Havemeyer, of the sugar-refining family, the building featured seven Otis elevators, a layout that allowed for bright, light-filled offices, and a killer view from its roof. The structure survived until the early 1930s when it was razed for a branch of the East River Savings Bank.
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Telephone Exchange 1896 Cortlandt St. West Wing. Female telephone operators wearing headsets at switchboards and telephones at a Telephone Exchange.
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Dey Street and Church Street. East River Savings Bank
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking toward Trinity Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
East River Savings Bank
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street and Church Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
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\[East River Savings Bank and Sixth Avenue El train station.]
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking south east toward Fulton Street, March 21, 1939.
East River Savings Bank
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking north from Cortlandt Street, March 24, 1939.
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\[East River Savings Bank and Sixth Avenue El train station.]
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, March 24, 1939.
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Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking east of Church Street, March 4, 1939.
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Church Street and Cortlandt Street. East River Savings Bank
East River Savings Bank
Church Street and Cortlandt Street. East River Savings Bank
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\[Century 21.] Originally East River Savings Bank.
East River Savings Bank
\[Century 21.] Originally East River Savings Bank.
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Havemeyer's Building H.O. Havemeyer's New Building; Site of Metropolitan Hotel./ Broadway, Northeast corner of Prince Street. On this site stood Niblo's Garden. \[printed on recto] The Havemeyer Building./ Church Street, East side, from Dey to Cortlandt Streets. \[printed on recto] Scrapbook page from "Views of New York City, Brooklyn and other places. Vol. 2." by Eugene Armbruster.
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