Saturday, May 7, 2011

39 Broadway, NYC -- MAP to Merchants of Death -- Prescott Bush, W.H. Harriman, Union Bank Company


The center shows the pryamid cap on the Standard Oil building, 26 Broadway. The shadow of the tower falls on 25 Broadway where Remington Arms once was headquartered in the Cunard Shipping Company building at 25 Broadway. Behind the tower of the S.O. building is a brick colored building, 39 Broadway. That is where the offices of W. Averill Harriman & Company resided which hired Prescott Bush of the presidential bush dynasty. Prescott Bush also had upstairs offices to manage 26 Nazi companies confiscated in the fall of 1942 eight months after Pearl Harbor.

The Enemy Property Custodian of Leo T. Crowley's office which confiscated those properties was located at 120 Broadway just off the upper right of the photo. Quite a bit was going on at 120 Broadway which is better dealt with at that map point.



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According to this newspaper report in 1941, the Union Banking Corporation offices were located in two rooms on the 25th floor of 39 Broadway.