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Continental Bank Building (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Broad Street, 30
 office building, skyscraper, Art Deco (architecture)

561-foot, 48-story Art-Deco office building in 1932. Designed by Morris & O’Connor (partnership of Benjamin Wistar Morris & Robert B. O'Connor), the building is an unusually plain, even severe, version of Art-Deco. According to the architects, the structure was designed to express straightforward business of the highest class without excessive ornamentation. The first three stories of the façade are clad in limestone with the remainder made up of light-colored brick and dark brick at the spandrels. Above the ground floor, the base has enormous, square, 9-pane windows of blue-green tinted glass, with 7-foot tall vertical light sconces between them.

The building footprint rises from street level to floor 20 where there is a small 2-story, and then 3-story, setback. The tower then rises straight up from floor 25 to floor 48 and the flat roof, with the only ornamentation being the termination of the piers, and recessed grooves between them. The dark brick spandrels end above the 46th floor. The ground floor contains a Verizon Wireless store, Champs Gourmet Deli, MySuit menswear, and Bluestone Lane Coffee.
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Coordinates:   40°42'22"N   74°0'41"W
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