Manhattan · New York County
60 Wall Street
POPS - Indoor Atrium
- Location
- 60 Wall Street, Financial District
- Size
- 0.30 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Indoor Atrium
60 Wall Street is a Privately Owned Public Space featuring one of the largest and most impressive indoor atriums in the Financial District. The soaring glass-roofed space provides a dramatic indoor public area at the heart of Wall Street.
The atrium at 60 Wall Street is one of the most generous POPS in Lower Manhattan, with high ceilings, natural light from the glass roof, extensive seating, and a sense of openness that is rare in the dense Financial District streetscape.
The building, designed by Roche-Dinkeloo and completed in 1989, has served as the headquarters of major financial institutions. The atrium's scale reflects the era of ambitious corporate architecture that characterized Wall Street development in the 1980s.
The POPS serves the Financial District's enormous daytime population, providing one of the few large indoor gathering spaces in a neighborhood where outdoor space is limited and weather conditions can make the narrow streets uncomfortable.
This atrium is one of the finest indoor POPS in Manhattan, demonstrating that the incentive zoning program can produce genuinely grand public spaces even in the most commercially driven neighborhoods.