Manhattan · New York County
75 Wall Street
POPS - Indoor Lobby
- Location
- 75 Wall Street, Financial District
- Size
- 0.08 acres
- Hours
- Open during building hours
- Type
- POPS - Indoor Lobby
75 Wall Street is a Privately Owned Public Space on Wall Street in the Financial District, providing an indoor publicly accessible lobby on the most famous financial street in the world.
Wall Street's transformation from a purely commercial district into a mixed-use neighborhood is exemplified by buildings like 75 Wall Street, which has been converted from office space to residential use. The POPS serves this evolving community.
The street's name derives from the wooden palisade wall built by the Dutch colonists in 1653 to defend the northern boundary of New Amsterdam. The wall was removed by the British in 1699, but the name endured to become the global synonym for American capitalism.
The POPS provides indoor public access on a street where the history of American finance, from Alexander Hamilton's founding of the Bank of New York in 1784 to the 2008 financial crisis, is compressed into a few short blocks.
This lobby space serves the public on the most storied financial street on Earth.