Twenty Exchange

Twenty Exchange is a rental apartment building at 20 Exchange Place in the Financial District of Manhattan, owned by DTH Capital. The tower was completed in 1931 as the City Bank Farmers Trust Building, an Art Deco skyscraper faced in limestone and carved with giant stone heads at its setbacks, and was later converted to rental apartments.

It stands a few steps from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, with Federal Hall, Trinity Church and the Stone Street restaurant lane all within a block. The Wall Street 2, 3, 4 and 5 stations and the J and Z at Broad Street are at the corner, and Battery Park and the Staten Island Ferry are a short walk south.

Designed by Cross & Cross and completed in 1931, the 57-story tower was among the last major skyscrapers of the pre-Depression building boom. Its exterior is a designated New York City landmark, and the conversion to roughly 720 rental apartments kept much of the original Art Deco entrance and lobby.

As in other converted office towers nearby, apartment layouts vary from floor to floor, and deep office floor plates mean some rooms sit well back from the windows. In exchange, residents get the high ceilings, solid construction and setback views that newer buildings rarely match, at an address a few steps from the Stock Exchange.