William Street (Manhattan)

40°42′22″N 74°00′35″W / 40.70611°N 74.00972°W / 40.70611; -74.00972

William Street is a street in the

It is one of the oldest streets in Manhattan and can be seen in the 1660 Castello Plan of New Amsterdam. It was originally called King Street, but was later renamed William after Willem Beekman who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1647 as a fellow passenger of Peter Stuyvesant. Beekman got his start as a Dutch West India Company clerk and later served nine terms as mayor of the young port city.^[1]

The buildings on South William Street 13-23 were reconstructed in the Dutch revival style by architect

The buildings on William Street tend to cater to the financial underpinnings of the area and include luxury

• 1 William Street
• 13-23 South William Street, constructed in Dutch Colonial Revival architecture
• 85 Broad Street (Goldman Sachs)
• Delmonico's Restaurant
  )
• 15 William
• 20 Exchange Place
• 55 Wall Street
• 48 Wall Street
• 28 Liberty Street
• 33 Liberty Street (Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  )
• 130 William
• New York Downtown Hospital
• Pace University
• The New School
• Our Lady of Victory Church (Manhattan)

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