Albany Street is a short street in the Financial District of

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in New York City. The street runs west-to-east from the Battery Park City Esplanade along the Hudson River to

Greenwich Street Greenwich Street is a north–south street in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan. It extends from the intersection of Ninth Avenue (Manhattan), Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District, Manhat ...

, passing through South End Avenue and West Street on the way. The street has a walkway connection to the Rector Street Bridge which crosses West Street.

History

According to maps drawn by David Valentine, the street did not exist before 1782. By 1789, it was a small extension of Thames Street. In 1797, the first pier on the west side of the island was built. The pier was used as the dock for the ferry between New York and Albany, hence the street leading to the pier was named "Albany Street". In the early 1850s, it was proposed that the street be extended through the yard next to Trinity Church in order to connect the street to Broadway. The proposition became the center of a heated debate between the Municipal Corporation of New York and the Religious Corporation of Trinity Church. When Battery Park City was built on

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in the Hudson River in the 1980s, the street was extended west of West Street into the new development.

Buildings

The Deutsche Bank Building was located on the north side of the street, but was heavily damaged in the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Alliance for Downtown New York and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in 2014 redeveloped part of that site into a new public open space, the Albany Street Plaza. Buildings on Albany Street include the

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(1907), also known as the West Street Building, a New York City designated landmark designed by Cass Gilbert, and

130 Cedar Street 130 Cedar Street, formerly known as the Green Exchange Building, is a mid-rise building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is located between Cedar Street and Albany Street running along Washington Street, sharing a ...

, formerly the 12-story Green Exchange Building, designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Guard and completed in 1931. The building was devastated in the September 11 attacks, and redeveloped into the 19-story

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hotel, which opened in 2000. Other hotels on Albany Street are the W New York Downtown at 8 Albany Street, the New York Marriott Downtown, located at 85 West Street at the corner of Albany Street, and the World Center Hotel at 144 Washington Street at Albany Street. Also of note are the town house apartments at 320-340 Albany Street and the Hudson Tower Apartments at No. 350, both built in 1986 and both designed by

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. Both buildings are mentioned in the ''

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''.

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* {{Financial District, Manhattan, state=collapsed Financial District, Manhattan Streets in Manhattan 1780s establishments in New York (state)