40 Wall Street, New York City
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40 Wall Street is a 70-storey skyscraper originally known as The Bank of the Manhattan Company building. It took on the numerical address when Bank of the Manhattan Company merged with Chase National Bank to form the Chase Manhattan Bank. 40 Wall Street is located between Nassau Street and William Street in Manhattan, New York City.
40 Wall Street was one of the skyscrapers that was a contender for world's tallest building, at the time of its construction. It was in a race with Chrysler Building, and was completed in 1930 after only 11 months of construction. It was planned to be 135 feet (41 metres) taller than the nearby Woolworth Building, which was the tallest in New York City since 1913. It was also designed to be two feel taller than Chrysler Building's planned height of 925 feet. Its pinnacle reaches 927 feet (282.5m), making it the tallest building in the world for a brief moment. However the architect and developers of the Chrysler Building secretly increased its height, and surpassed 40 Wall Street that same year, only to be surpassed the following year by the Empire State Building.
The building is now also known as the Trump Building, after Donald Trump bought it in 1995. In 1998, it was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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