17 State Street is a 42-story building in the Financial District of Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

. Completed in 1988, the building rises to 542 ft (165 m). It was designed by Emery Roth and Sons

Emery Roth

Emery Roth was an American architect who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details...

, and it is most noted for its distinct curved facade

Facade

A facade or façade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face"....

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The bottom floors of the skyscraper are home to New York Unearthed, an urban archaeology

Urban archaeology

Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specialising in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left a rich record of the past....

 museum with approximately two million artifacts from local excavation sites. The museum was originally included as a concession to the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, who had been unable to perform an archaeological survey of the site before construction began. They believed that the lot had contained artifacts from the early 18th century, although a lawyer for the construction firm claimed to be "absolutely certain that no archeological material was lost".

Tenants

• The US Headquarters of AppSense, a software company and world leader in User Virtualization technologies are located on the 19th floor.
• The US offices of Fidessa
  Fidessa
  Fidessa Group plc is a British-headquartered company which provides software and services such as trading systems to clients in the financial services sector...
  
  , a finance software company, take up several floors of the building, including the half of 18th, 21st, 33rd, 35th, 41st and 42nd.
• The offices of Georgeson Shareholders on the 28th floor of the building had a webcam that was fixed on the Statue of Liberty and has since been removed.
• Opera Solutions
  Opera Solutions
  Opera Solutions, LLC is a technology and analytics company mainly focused on capturing profit growth opportunities emerging from Big Data. The firm uses a combination of analytics, technology, machine learning science, large-scale data management, and human expertise to build and deliver analytics...
  
  , a management consulting firm with offices in New York, London, Paris, Shanghai and New Delhi, occupied the 28th floor until February 2011, before moving to Maiden Lane
• IPsoft, a managed services provider, takes up office space on the 10th, 12th and 14th floors.
• Hudson Insurance Group, a specialty insurance underwriter of primary and excess property and casualty insurance. This company's New York City headquarters is located on the 29th through the 31st floors.
• Varick Asset Management
• The New York offices of Neville Peterson LLP, a law firm concentrating in international and domestic trade regulation matters.