101 Barclay Street

101 Barclay Street is a large office building completed in 1983 that long served as a headquarters for the Bank of New York (later BNY Mellon). It occupies the full block bounded by Barclay, Greenwich, Murray, and West Streets in Lower Manhattan, at the northern edge of the Financial District near Tribeca.

The building's Privately Owned Public Space takes the form of an indoor public lobby, an L-shaped atrium with a glass-topped, office-lined interior carved out of the building's center. The space was created in exchange for additional development rights, and the original approvals also envisioned a pedestrian easement running through the block from Barclay Street to Murray Street.

The atrium is notable for its vast internal volume and a central cylindrical elevator core, a dramatic interior that has been likened to a hangar more than a typical office lobby. Entrances were intended from the north side of Barclay Street and the west side of Greenwich Street.

Public access to the lobby was sharply curtailed after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and for years the space was effectively closed to the public despite its POPS status, a situation highlighted in a 2017 city audit of privately owned public spaces. Public access was subsequently restored, though to a reduced portion of the originally negotiated space.

The building sits within blocks of the World Trade Center site, City Hall, and the Hudson River waterfront, in a corner of Lower Manhattan where dense commercial development meets the residential character of Tribeca to the north.