One Broadway

New York is often said to be a city that destroys its own history, but in fact, the city's history isn't gone so much as obscured, covered over by relentless forward motion. Case in point: One Broadway, the first building on that most celebrated of streets, which today houses a bank branch. Look above the doors, however, and you see signs of its former life as the headquarters of the International Mercantile Marine Company, builders of the Titanic. Would-be passengers entered through the "First Class" or "Cabin" doors, still there today, and several stories up, the building continues to announce ports of call around the world.