85 Broad Street — Goldman Sachs global headquarters
Joseph’s 1981 entry places him on Goldman Sachs’s new 85 Broad Street headquarters above the archaeological remains of New Amsterdam.
85 Broad Street in the Financial District, Manhattan. Photographed in 2026; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2026 · Photo: Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: 85 Broad Street — 1981
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-152
2 of two
“85 Broad Street — 1981”
The Stadt Huys excavation shaped the project's city approvals; later engineering research says 85 Broad's construction-monitoring methodology became the direct basis for NYC's 1988 TPPN 10/88 landmark-protection rule.
CMU/block partitions, shafts, service/core walls and masonry backup are now directly supported by the headquarters improvement inventory, which explicitly names masonry in occupant areas. The visible red-brown granite-aggregate exterior still should not be assigned to Kelly without the facade/subcontract records.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Strong
Most likely CMU/block partitions, shafts, service/core walls and masonry backup. The tower's visible red-brown granite-aggregate exterior should not automatically be assigned to Kelly.
This scope is recorded as strong, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.
The construction team
- 01Owner / client
Goldman Sachs
- 02Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
What happened to it
Still standing / office building
85 Broad remains an office building. A 2025 NYC Comptroller analysis identified it as an example of office space that could potentially support residential conversion; that modeling is not evidence of an announced conversion project.
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01goldmansachs.com
1983 85 broad
- 02skyscrapercenter.com
10476
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:85 Broad Street 001.jpg
- Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2026-01-08
85 Broad Street in the Financial District, Manhattan. Photographed in 2026; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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