Brooklyn Trust Company

[3][4] The board of incorporators included several locally prominent figures[5] such as philanthropist Henry E. Pierrepont; collector J. Carson Brevoort; builder Daniel Chauncey; attorneys Jasper W. Gilbert and Alexander McCue; real estate developer John T. Runcie; politician William Wall; and businessman James Weaver.

[6] The bank opened in June 1868, with Ethelbert S. Mills as its first president,[7] and was originally located at Court and Joralemon Streets.

[17] The Brooklyn Trust Company's board of directors approved the construction of a branch in the Financial District of Manhattan in January 1907[18] and opened a location at Broadway and Wall Street that May.

[30][31] Because of Brooklyn Trust's involvement in managing Ebbets's estate, the bank was sometimes erroneously cited as an owner of the Dodgers.

[32] During late 1927, Brooklyn Trust acquired the Coney Island Bank from the National American Company.

[40][41] By the 1930s, the Brooklyn Trust Company had 31 branches in New York City, including in Queens and Staten Island.

One of the bank's branches, within Park Slope, was modeled after the design of its main headquarters on Montague Street.

[53] The Wall Street Journal called the negotiations "the most intensive competitive auction in New York City banking history since the late '20s".

The Italian Renaissance-inspired headquarters was designed by the architectural firm of York and Sawyer, and it was modeled after the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona.

[24] The building's facade and the banking hall's interior were designated as New York City landmarks in 1996,[59] and the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

[60] The various successors of the Brooklyn Trust Company owned the building until 2007, when JPMorgan Chase sold it for $9.7 million.