Forty years ago virtually every major investment bank called the Wall Street area home.
Since then the headquarters of most of those firms (or the firms with which they merged)
have scattered uptown or even out of Manhattan altogether. Of the three major investment
banks whose headquarters were still south of Chambers Street on Sept. 11, two--Lehman Brothers
and Merrill Lynch--have been forced out of their damaged buildings. Where are they? Midtown--
at least for now.