The Trinity Court Building was a building in

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History

The earliest building to carry the name was built in 1879 for the

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. It had six stories, 5,000 square feet of space, stores on the ground floor, and commercial lofts in the rest. None of the sides were of equal length; the front facade was long and the other facades measured , , and .

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sold it in 1888. The building was the focus of a complex tort in the 1890s over property value loss due to the operation of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad (later

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) in front of it. The builder (Western Union) and the defendant (railway) were both controlled by the same group of investors, who were asserted to be in collusion against buyer Augustus D. Shepard to nullify any damages collected. Mutual Life Assurance foreclosed on the building in 1914, and auctioned it to Alliance Realty. It was sold in 1919 to Frazar & Co, which was believed to have had plans to replace it with a new

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. The building was demolished in 1926. It was built in place the

Trinity Court Building (1927–2015) The Trinity Court Building was a building in Lower Manhattan, New York City. History The old building was torn down in 1926 to make way for a 24-story, skyscraper. It was completed in 1927. One of the earliest tenants of the new building was ...

(II).

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