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Continental Bank Building, the Glossary

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The Continental Bank Building is a 50-story skyscraper at 30 Broad Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 32 relations: Almshouse, Art Deco, Audrey Hepburn, Bank, Basement, Broad Street (Manhattan), Broker, Clearing house (finance), Continental Bank and Trust Company, Cross & Cross, Cushman & Wakefield, Dutch Reformed Church, Elevator, Exchange Place (Manhattan), Executive Suite, Façade, Financial District, Manhattan, Foundation (engineering), Granite, Limestone, Lobby (room), Manhattan, New York (state), New York City, New York Stock Exchange Building, Pneumatic tube, Sabrina (1954 film), Skyscraper, Spandrel, The New York Times, United States, William Holden.

  2. Broad Street (Manhattan)
  3. Office buildings completed in 1932

Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.

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Basement

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor.

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Broad Street (Manhattan)

Broad Street is a north–south street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Broker

A broker is a person who or entity which arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller.

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Clearing house (finance)

A clearing house is a financial institution formed to facilitate the exchange (i.e., clearance) of payments, securities, or derivatives transactions.

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Continental Bank and Trust Company

The Continental Bank and Trust Company of New York was a financial institution based in New York City, New York, United States.

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Cross & Cross

Cross & Cross (1907–1942) was a New York City-based architectural firm founded by brothers John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross.

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Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield Inc. is an American global commercial real estate services firm.

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Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church (abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.

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Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

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Exchange Place (Manhattan)

Exchange Place is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Executive Suite

Executive Suite is a 1954 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film directed by Robert Wise and written by Ernest Lehman, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Financial District, Manhattan

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

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Foundation (engineering)

In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Lobby (room)

A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Stock Exchange Building

The New York Stock Exchange Building (also the NYSE Building), in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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Pneumatic tube

Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines, also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT) are systems that propel cylindrical containers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum.

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Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman, based on Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair.

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A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.

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Spandrel

A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent arches, or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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See also

Broad Street (Manhattan)

Office buildings completed in 1932

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Bank_Building

Also known as 30 Broad Street.