Conservation of the exterior, restoration of the interior and adaptation of the American Bank Note Company Building into a club/restaurant building. It is also being refurbished and new apartments and new retail constructed. American Bank Note Building 70 Broad Street, Manhattan. This project is called Office centre 1000, but people call it simply the Banknote building. Developed in 1972 by Mayor John Lindsay as a “program of last resort” for the chronically unemployed, the organization provides job skills and training for the economically disadvantaged. Well, some funny guys from a design and architecture company in Lithuania thought it would be original to paint the facade of an office building in the second biggest city in the country with the image of the national banknote.
Later, the American Bank Note Building was home to artists’ studios and Wildcat High School, established for troubled students by the Wildcat Service Organization. The company also entered into printing stock and bond certificates in association with the New York Stock Exchange in the later 19th Century. Its Bronx factory was built in 1911 and it was designated as a NYC Landmark in 2008. The building consists of three distinct interconnected sections built in 1911, and is the former home of the American BankNote Company, which printed U.S. American Bank Note did produce US currency from 1858 to 1879, and for a short time in 1861 produced Confederate money. The BankNote Building is a 405,000 square-foot former industrial building located adjacent to the Bruckner Expressway in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. The company later to become American Bank Note was founded in the 1790s by engraver Joseph Perkins, a Massachusetts native from Newburyport the company was incorporated in 1858. Until then, here’s a photo of the American Bank Note Building seen from Bruckner Boulevard and Tiffany Street.įrom the ForgottenBook: This fortress-like building at Lafayette Avenue and Tiffany Street has produced Mexican, Brazilian, Costa Rican, Ecuadorian and Haitian stock certificates, travelers’ checks and stock certificates, as well as paper money. It looks like I’ll be spending some time in the Port Morris-Hunt’s Point areas in the Bronx, since a new pedestrian/bike bridge has opened spanning the Bronx Kill between the mainland and Randall’s Island.
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