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Bank of United States

This article is about a commercial bank in New York that failed in 1930. For the central bank of the United States, see Federal Reserve. For federal and other private banks in the US, see Bank of the United States (disambiguation).
Crowds form outside the Bank of United States when it failed in 1931.

The Bank of United States, founded by Joseph S. Marcus in 1913 at 77 Delancey Street in New York City,[1][2][3] was a New York City bank that failed in 1931. The bank run on its Bronx branch is said to have started the collapse of banking during the Great Depression.[4]

  1. ^ "MERGER OF 2 BANKS LINKS $175,000,000", The New York Times, April 27, 1928
  2. ^ "HIGH-TITLED BANK CAN HOLD ITS NAME; Its Rivals Argued East Side Would Think "Bank of United States" Was Government's" (PDF), The New York Times, p. 7, June 24, 1913
  3. ^ "GIVES ROOF GARDEN FOR JEWISH BLIND; J. S. Marcus Equips Recreation Centre on Top of Bank of United States Building EXCLUSIVELY FOR THEIR USE Association Aims to Hunt Up the Sightless of Their Race and Educate Them", The New York Times, June 7, 1915
  4. ^ Gray, Christopher (August 18, 1991), "Streetscapes: The Bank of the United States in the Bronx; The First Domino In the Depression", The New York Times

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