Hale Building

The Hale Building is an office structure which opened in 1927 at 11 East 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

[1] Fred T. Ley & Company built the edifice and Shreve & Lamb were its architects.

[2] Hale Building is significant as an important residence for offices on the Lower East Side during the late 1920s and the Great Depression era.

In a judgment in which Eleven East 44th Street Corporation was the defendant, Continental Bank and Trust Company, trustee and plaintiff, was awarded the Hale Building.

[3] In 2008, a Brooks Brothers store opened in the Hale Building,[4] and in 2019, it was sold to the company for $106 million.