2 Broadway

2 Broadway
(2014)
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	International
Address	2-8 Broadway
Town or city	Financial District, Manhattan, New York City
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°42′16″N 74°00′47″W / 40.7045°N 74.0130°W / 40.7045; -74.0130
Construction started	1958
Completed	1959
Renovated	1999
Height	421 feet (128 m)
Technical details
Floor count	32
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Emery Roth & Sons
Renovating team
Renovating firm	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
References
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2 Broadway is an office building at the south end of Broadway, near Bowling Green Park, in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The 32-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons and constructed from 1958 to 1959, contains offices for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). 2 Broadway serves as the headquarters for some of the MTA's subsidiary agencies.

The building is on a site bounded by Broadway and Whitehall Street to the west, Beaver Street to the north, and Stone Street to the south. It fills most of the lot, with the building rising in triple setbacks. The facade is covered in blue-green tinted glass, which dates from a 1999 redesign by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The site was previously occupied by the George B. Post–designed New York Produce Exchange building, which was completed in 1884. Plans for the skyscraper date to 1953, when William Lescaze devised plans to replace the Produce Exchange Building. Emery Roth & Sons were selected to be the architects when Uris Buildings Corporation took over the project. The original tenants were largely financial firms, while the Produce Exchange owned the land under the building and occupied some lower floors. Olympia and York acquired 2 Broadway in 1976 and the underlying land in 1983. After the building became mostly vacant during the early 1990s, Tamir Sapir purchased 2 Broadway in 1995. The building was renovated after the MTA leased all the space in 1998, although the project encountered high costs and several delays.