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Home Life Building

The Home Life Building, also known as 253 Broadway, is an office building in , New York City. It is in 's and neighborhoods at the northwest corner of Broadway and Murray Street, adjacent to .
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: building in Manhattan, New York
  • Also known as: “253 Broadway”, “256 Broadway”, “Home Life Insurance Building”, “Home Life Insurance Company Building”, “Postal Telegraph Building”, and “Postal Telegraph Company Building”
  • Address: 253 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
  • Roof shape: flat

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Woolworth Building and New York City Hall.

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The is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the neighborhood of in . is situated 430 feet southwest of Home Life Building.

Town hall
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is the seat of New York City government, located at the center of in the area of , between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. is situated 480 feet southeast of Home Life Building.

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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and as the , is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in , New York City. is situated 1,600 feet west of Home Life Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Manhattan and TriBeCa.

Quarter
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Lower Manhattan, also known as , is the southernmost part of the New York City borough of . The area is the historical birthplace of New York City and in the 17th and 18th centuries composed the entirety of the city.

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A former industrial district in Lower , , short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

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The comprises the southern tip of , with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

Home Life Building

Latitude
40.71342° or 40° 42′ 48″ north
Longitude
-74.00748° or 74° 0′ 27″ west
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Levels
13
Height
204 feet (62 metres)
Open location code
87G7PX7V+92
Open­Street­Map ID
way 278093226
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­flat
Geo­Names ID
5132083
Wiki­data ID
Q98596418
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Spanish—“Home Life Building” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مبنى هوم لايف”
  • Hebrew: “בניין הום לייף”
  • Persian: “ساختمان هوم لایف”
  • Spanish: “Home Life Building”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Home Life Building”. Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.