Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Architect
- York and Sawyer
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, also known as 33 Liberty Street, serves as the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and occupies the full block between Liberty, William, and Nassau Streets and Maiden Lane. It was designed by York and Sawyer, with decorative ironwork by Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia, and erected from 1919 to 1924.
the building
A rusticated stone facade. The fourteen-story building's stone exterior is divided horizontally into a base, midsection, and top section, its horizontal and vertical joints deeply rusticated in a manner reminiscent of early Italian Renaissance palaces such as Florence's Palazzo Strozzi and Palazzo Vecchio.
The gold vault below. Five basement levels descend beneath the building, and the gold vault rests on Manhattan's bedrock 80 feet below street level and 50 feet below sea level, holding about 6,979 short tons of gold as of 2024, the largest known monetary-gold reserve in the world.
the style
York and Sawyer modeled the Renaissance Revival facade on early Italian Renaissance palaces, using deeply rusticated stone to project the security and permanence appropriate to a national gold vault.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The building is an NYC Individual Landmark, designated December 21, 1965, and a contributing and individually listed property on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Liberty Tower
- John Street Methodist Church
- Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
- 63 Nassau Street Building
- World Trade Center twin towers
- 140 Broadway