Cipriani 42nd Street | Event Venue

The building you are approaching at one hundred ten East Forty-second Street was designed to be a cathedral of finance. Completed in nineteen twenty-three for the Bowery Savings Bank, the structure draws architectural inspiration from medieval Italian churches rather than the typical Greek temple style used for banks at the time. Its designers at the firm York and Sawyer utilized towering rounded arches and thick stone walls to create a sense of absolute security and historical weight. The bank moved into this location with immense spectacle, transporting over two hundred million dollars in securities from its old headquarters under heavy guard by police and armored cars bristling with sub-machine guns.