140 Broadway in Manhattan was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The developer Erwin S. Wolfson assembled the site, and after his death in 1962 Harry Helmsley took over. Marine Midland Bank was the main tenant. Demolition began in June 1964, and construction was certified complete in October 1967. The style is International Style.
The facade is smooth black aluminum with dark glass panels, on a butt-welded steel frame of about 14,000 short tons. The infobox gives 52 floors and the text 51 stories, at 688 feet (210 m). The plaza is paved in white travertine and holds Isamu Noguchi's Cube, a vermilion rhombohedron about 28 feet (8.5 m) tall, installed in 1968.
A bomb exploded on the eighth floor in 1969, injuring 20. The building became a city landmark on June 25, 2013. Union Investment has owned it since 2004. It is an office building. The article gives no hours.
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