17 State Street

17 State Street is a postmodern office tower completed in 1988 in Manhattan's Financial District, immediately recognizable for its smooth, curved curtain-wall facade with a faint blue-glass shimmer. The building's arc-shaped profile stands in deliberate contrast to the rigid grid of surrounding lower Manhattan streets. Arriving by ferry or ship into New York Harbor, the tower registers as a gleaming anchor at the southern tip of the downtown skyline. It functions as a commercial office building with no public access, but serves as a clear visual landmark at the edge of the waterfront near Battery Park.