40 Wall Street (The Trump Building)
For one month in 1930 this was the tallest building on Earth, until the Chrysler Building took the crown.
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A 927-foot neo-Gothic skyscraper built in 1929-1930 as the Manhattan Company's headquarters, and the loser of a famous height race with the Chrysler Building. Donald Trump bought the lease in 1995.
What to look for
- The pyramid crowned by a spire at the very top — the same pyramidal-roof family as the Woolworth Building
- The limestone base giving way to buff-colored brick and stepped setbacks on the upper stories
- How the sloping site puts the Pine Street entrance on the second floor while the Wall Street door is on the first
Stand back on Wall Street between Nassau and William streets to catch the spire; Federal Hall is right across the way to the west.
40 Wall Street (The Trump Building) is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.