85 Broad Street

85 Broad Street is a Privately Owned Public Space on Broad Street in the Financial District, providing an outdoor plaza near the Goldman Sachs headquarters and the New York Stock Exchange.

Broad Street at this location is in the densest concentration of financial institutions in the world. Goldman Sachs, the NYSE, and dozens of other financial firms operate within a few blocks, creating an environment where trillions of dollars in transactions occur daily.

The street's colonial Dutch heritage as a filled-in canal (brede gracht) is invisible beneath the modern office towers, but the unusual width of Broad Street compared to the surrounding Financial District lanes preserves the memory of the waterway.

The POPS serves the Financial District's enormous daytime population on a street where the history of American capitalism, from Dutch colonial trading to 21st-century global finance, is concentrated in a few short blocks.

This plaza provides public outdoor space at the epicenter of global finance, on a street that began as a Dutch canal and became the nerve center of the world economy.