2 Broadway is an office building located on Broadway

Broadway (New York City)

Broadway is a prominent avenue in New York City, United States, which runs through the full length of the borough of Manhattan and continues northward through the Bronx borough before terminating in Westchester County, New York. It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to...

 in New York City.

History

The plot is located next to the historic Bowling Green

Bowling Green (New York City)

Bowling Green is a small public park in Lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. Built in 1733, originally including a bowling green, it is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th century fence. At...

. The building that used to stand there was the Produce Exchange Building, which was a representative structure constructed out of brick with terracotta decorations. Its grand skylighted hall, based on French retail structures, cast daylight into the lower floors. Its architect was George B. Post

George B. Post

George Browne Post was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition.-Biography:Post was a student of Richard Morris Hunt , but unlike many architects of his generation, he had previously received a degree in civil engineering...

, who built it from 1881–84. The building can be briefly seen in the 1928 silent movie Speedy

Speedy (film)

Speedy is a 1928 silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy. It starred famous comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role, and it was his last silent film to be released in theatres. The film was written by Albert...

with Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

.

The Produce Exchange Building was demolished in 1957 and replaced by a 32-story tower constructed in 1958-1959. The developer Uris Brothers first preferred a design by William Lescaze

William Lescaze

William Edmond Lescaze was a Swiss-born American architect, and is one of the pioneers of modernism in American architecture....

 with Kahn & Jacobs, which featured a a tower slab set at right angles to Broadway. However ultimately Emery Roth & Sons was given the contract, which saw a radically different design which would fill most of the lot, with the building rising in triple setback

Setback

Setback may have the following meanings:* Setback , the distance a structure must be from the edge of a lot* Setback , making upper storeys of a high-rise building further back than the lower ones for aesthetic, structural, or land-use restriction reasons* Pitch , a card game related to All Fours*A...

s. The facade is covered in bluish tinted glass.

The building was part of the filming location in the 1965 thriller Mirage with Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

 and Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.-Early life:...

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