40 Broad Street

40 Broad Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Financial District, providing an indoor publicly accessible lobby on one of Lower Manhattan's most historically significant commercial streets.

Broad Street takes its name from the broad canal that the Dutch colonists built along this route in the 17th century, modeled after the canals of Amsterdam. The canal was filled in during the British colonial period, but the street's unusual width preserves the memory of the waterway.

The New York Stock Exchange, founded in 1792, operates from its landmarked building at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, a few blocks south of this address. Broad Street's identity is inseparable from the financial industry that has dominated the area for over two centuries.

The POPS provides indoor public access on a street where the history of American capitalism is literally paved into the ground, from the Dutch colonial canal to the stock exchange that became the engine of the world's largest economy.

This lobby space serves the Financial District community on a street that connects colonial Dutch engineering to 21st-century global finance.