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Greetings, billionaires! Have you thought about investing in Wall Street—residentially? There’s no better time: the fabled, gabled landmarks of yesterday’s âges d’or are being parceled up, kitted out with containers of Italian marble and German appliances, and sold to the quickest bidder. Forget midtown’s Yertle-the-Turtle supertalls. Wall Street has peak prewar grandeur—you pick the war! Crimean? Whiskey Rebellion? Your call.

Why look for miles when you can see for centuries? A primo way to get a sense of this storyselling is to visit Christopher Wool’s sprawling show “See Stop Run” on the nineteenth floor of a stately 1907 office building. Installed in an 18,000-square-foot U-shaped space deconned down to the studs, the show has #spectacularviews overlooking New York Harbor on one side and, on the other, Trinity Church (one of the locale’s biggest real-estate barons) and its churchyard, where the first US treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, is interred. It’s also a great spot to look over One Wall Street, the 1931 Art Deco skyscraper and former home of the Bank of New York that is currently the area’s splashiest residential conversion, with amenities including a seventy-five-foot, thirty-eighth-floor pool, a private restaurant, and a Whole Foods on the ground floor—all of which are situated at possibly the most brotastic address in the world.



When you’re done, you can also look over what Wool has been up to since his 2013 retrospective at N.

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