Bank Street (Manhattan)

Vehicular traffic runs west-east along this one-way street.

A clerk in the bank's main office on Wall Street had contracted yellow fever, leading the bank to buy land in Greenwich Village in order to have a branch office away from Wall Street where it could conduct business in the event of future emergencies.

[2] The former Bell Laboratories headquarters, now a National Historic Landmark, occupied the Westbeth complex at no.

[citation needed] On October 16, 1971, the musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved into apartment No. 105.

Originally owned by Joe Butler, the former drummer of the band the Lovin' Spoonful, the apartment featured two large rooms, one of which the couple bought and the other they rented.

[5] The couple's neighbors included John Cage, Bob Dylan, Jerry Rubin[5] and Merce Cunningham,[6] whose phone they would use to avoid FBI wiretapping.

[7] In April 1973, Lennon and Ono moved to The Dakota building, located on the upper West Side of New York.

[2] Marion Tanner, inspiration for the book, play, and musical Auntie Mame lived at 72.

5 from 1913 until 1927 when that building was demolished during the construction of extensions to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line; it became then nos.