International Telephone and Telegraph Building
75 Broad Street | also 67 Broad Street, 28 South William Street | Financial District | built 1928
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1741
An earlier general store on this corner is burgled in 1741, sparking the panic of the supposed "Great Negro Plot"
Long before the tower, a general store belonged to Robert and Rebecca Hogg at the corner of Broad and what is now South William Street. A burglary there on February 28, 1741 set off a panic, and officials treated it as one piece of a supposed "Great Negro Plot" to burn the town. By the time the hysteria ended, 34 people, mostly enslaved Africans, had been hanged or burned at the stake.
Source: nysonglines.com
- 1928
Developer Abraham Lefcourt builds a tower at 75 Broad Street, and ITT soon takes it over
Abraham Lefcourt, a Garment District developer, put up the building in 1928 and called it the Lefcourt Exchange Building. The International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation bought it very quickly and, by 1930, had enlarged it to fill the entire block. The original design was by Buchman & Kahn; Louis S. Weeks planned the addition.
Source: nysonglines.com
- 1928
A mosaic dome over an entrance shows Commerce joining the hemispheres with electricity
When ITT moved into its new headquarters at 75 Broad Street in 1928, a mosaic dome was made for one of the entrances. Ephemeral New York, drawing on New York Songlines, explains that the picture shows Commerce linking the two hemispheres through electricity. The blog praised it as a lovely dome in a 2012 post, so it was still there more than eight decades later.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 2002
Millennium High School opens on the 11th through 13th floors of the former ITT headquarters
In 2002 a new public school, Millennium High School, opened in the old ITT tower. New York Songlines describes it as an effort to revitalize Downtown after the attacks on the World Trade Center. The school fills three floors of a building that went up in 1928 as the Lefcourt Exchange Building and became the telephone giant's headquarters.
Source: nysonglines.com
Further reading
- The lovely mosaic dome on a downtown buildingEphemeral New York
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