Manhattan · New York County
40 Rector Street
POPS - Indoor Lobby
- Location
- 40 Rector Street, Financial District
- Size
- 0.06 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Indoor Lobby
40 Rector Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Financial District, providing an indoor publicly accessible lobby near Trinity Church and the western edge of Wall Street.
Rector Street takes its name from the rector of Trinity Church, the historic Episcopal parish at the head of Wall Street. Trinity Church has occupied its present site since 1697 and has been one of the wealthiest and most influential churches in America.
Trinity Church's graveyard contains the tombs of Alexander Hamilton (the first Secretary of the Treasury), Robert Fulton (inventor of the steamboat), and other figures from the earliest chapters of American history.
The POPS at 40 Rector Street serves the Financial District community near one of the most historically significant churches in the United States, in a neighborhood where colonial-era graves lie in the shadow of 21st-century skyscrapers.
This lobby space provides public access near the church where the financial and spiritual histories of New York intersect.