2 Broadway (New York City)

Built in 1959 next to the Standard Oil Building at the beginning of Broadway as one of the first modernist office towers in Downtown Manhattan.

It replaced the Produce Exchange Building (arch. George B. Post of the New York World Building, 1884) as an "acceptable" sacrifice to get the Downtown development on the way.

The building occupies most of its large plot, rising in triple setbacks, with only the western portion of the building, facing Bowling Green, rising to the full height of 33-stories.