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​The NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (1) (18 Broad Street) was founded in 1792 under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. Today, publicly traded companies such as Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin are guaranteed billions of dollars in US government contracts to maintain and modernize nuclear weapons.

During World War II, US research and development produced the world’s first nuclear weapons. Because this project’s inaugural headquarters were located at 270 Broadway in Manhattan, it was known as the MANHATTAN PROJECT (7).

Edgar Sengier, director of a colonialist mining company in the former Belgian Congo, provided the US government with access to uranium for use in the Manhattan Project. His New York office was in the CUNARD BUILDING (2) (25 Broadway). Uranium and other materials were procured by the AFRICAN METALS COMPANY (4) (Broad Street & Exchange Place).

The K-1 Group, including employees of Union Carbide, M.W. Kellogg, the Houdaille-Hershey Corp., Bakelite, and Columbia University, met on the 14th floor of the WOOLWORTH BUILDING (3) (233 Broadway) in 1944. Their task was to restructure the uranium gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

​CITY HALL (5) (Broadway & Chambers Street) and City Hall Park have been at the center of New York’s political life for centuries. In 2021, due to the advocacy of NYCAN and its partners, the City Council adopted Resolution 976 and Introduction 1621, a package of legislation introduced by former NYC Council Member and Council Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm:
Resolution 976 reaffirms NYC as a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, calls upon the NYC Comptroller to instruct the pension funds of public employees in NYC to divest from and avoid any financial exposure to companies involved in the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons, and joins New York to the ICAN Cities Appeal,  by calling on the US Government to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Introduction 1621 establishes an NYC Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Advisory Committee to “examine nuclear disarmament and issues related to recognizing and reaffirming NYC as a nuclear weapons-free zone.” The Committee will “conduct a comprehensive review of NYC’s current stance on nuclear weapons,” submitting an annual report for five years including “findings and conclusions and any recommendations for policy or legislation.” The Committee can also “host discussions, public programs and other educational initiatives.”
Before they were convicted and executed for sharing US atomic secrets with the Soviet Union, JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG (6) lived in the Knickerbocker Village housing project. They resided at 10 Monroe Street, on the eleventh floor.

The St. Denis Building (80 East 11th Street) was the headquarters of the PEACE INFORMATION CENTER (8), established by the American Communist Party to advocate for the Stockholm Peace Appeal, a 1950 World Peace Council initiative designed to promote nuclear disarmament. Members of the Center, including Director W.E.B. DuBois, were accused by the Department of Justice of failing to register as “agents of a foreign principal.”
​The Nuclear NYC Map was created by Kathleen Sullivan, Noah Diamond, Seth Shelden, and Matthew Bolton for NYCAN, incorporating research by Catherine Falzone. Map design by Noah Diamond.
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