52 Broadway, Commercial building in Financial District, Manhattan, US
52 Broadway is a 20-story office building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, built with a steel skeleton frame. It sits on Broadway itself, in a densely built stretch of the street close to the southern tip of the island.
The building was completed in 1898, designed by the architectural firm Clinton and Russell as a 12-story structure. Decades later, in the 1980s, it underwent a major reconstruction that brought it to its current height.
The building serves as the headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers, the largest teachers union in New York City. People coming and going at the entrance are often educators attending meetings or union events.
The building is easy to reach on foot from several subway stations in the Financial District, and the surrounding streets are straightforward to navigate. Weekday daytime visits work best, as the neighborhood is most active then.
During the 1980s renovation, workers removed the entire original facade, leaving only the bare steel frame standing. The building that emerged from that process was essentially rebuilt from scratch around the old skeleton.
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