It looks like replacement copper. It takes 20+ years for it to turn green. Worldwide Plaza was built in 1989.
This photo is from Wikipedia in 2007. It’s still only about 60% green at that point.
It’s pretty green now though, 33 years later.
It’s pretty green now though, 33 years later.
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Thanks for your answer IhateUSsteel. 
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Does anyone else wonder how great NY would have been if it would have stayed the US capitol?
Entrance to 39-41 Wall Street
A facade drawing of the Imperial Hotel from 1894.
The original facade of the Met. Life Building was made of white marble.
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1952 - Lehigh Valley, North River Pier 8, at the foot of Rector Street
1916 - The office wing of the Central New Jersey Piers (10 and 11). Pier 10 terminated near the foot of Albany Street, and Pier 11 was at Cedar. This building filled the gap between them and was connected to their Ferry Terminal Building next door at Liberty Street.
1950s - Pier 12 did not exist in recent history but was the site of the Central New Jersey and the Weehawken Ferry Terminals (a portion of the Weehawken Ferry Building was operated by the Penn Railroad, but became a parking lot around 1948)
Pier 9 was sandwiched between 8 and 10 at the foot of Carlisle, and all I’ve gathered was the large “Great White Fleet” label on the western side. Does anyone have any information on this one, or better pictures of the West Street facade?
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These are going to be my last post. Keep up with the forum ladies and gentlemen. See you guys later…
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GG man. Good luck on your journey!
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According to this article, a pedestrian bridge connected the 5th floor of the Manhattan Life Building with the 8th floor of the Stock Exchange annex at 20 Broad Street. It only lasted 5 years and I haven’t found a single good picture of it, but it’s something I never would expect.
Construction views
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Do you mean the Consolidated and Petroleum Exchange or the Commercial Cable Building?
Or did they have direct access to the Stock Exchange?
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The really plump building that replaced Commercial Cable, Apparently Central Hanover Bank had floors leased in the new tower, so they joined them with their home offices across New Street. They moved out in 1962 at the same time that the Manhattan Life Building changed hands and the bridge either came down before or with the building.
Employee Dining for Hanover Bank in 20 Broad Street
Employee Lounge
Source 1950sUnlimited | Flickr
I found one picture of the bridge in the darkness, but it’s on Getty and it’s watermarked. It has Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller passing underneath it not long after it was built.
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Manhattan Life Building as seen from the Produce Exchange with the Johnston Building under construction in 1895.
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Oh how I would love for them to be rebuilt, even now.
They aren’t the most beautiful buildings NYC has ever had, but man were they iconic and unfortunately I was (and I guess still am) too young to experience them.
Just saying if I was a multi-billionaire looking for a passion project.
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Rebuild those boys every bit as large as the OG’s, maybe even bigger to keep up with the ever-growing skyline. I would also try and keep the “heads in the kitchen” few and far between, isolated under a few key executives, not subject to the mercurial whims of the general populace. They were designed under notoriously tight-lipped conditions after all.
The first typical New York skyscraper (after facade division) under construction the Tribune Building 1874.
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Evelyn Hofer, 1963 ft. the corpse of the Scott & Bowne Building
Evelyn Hofer, 1960s ft. the Bennett Building back when it was still a pretty periwinkle color
Metropolitan Realty Building demolition c. October 1962
Singer Building demolition c. early winter 1968 (Danny Cornyetz via Manhattan from 1990)
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I am certainly glad the mentality of the 60’s (tear everything down) is behind us, I think (hope) forever.