Adjacent buildings include 7 World Trade Center to the east and One World Trade Center to the south. It occupies an entire city block bounded by West Street to the west, Vesey Street and the World Trade Center to the south, Washington Street to the east, and Barclay Street to the north. The Barclay–Vesey Building is on the border of Lower Manhattan's Financial District and Tribeca neighborhoods. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, and its exterior and first-floor interior were declared city landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1991.

The Barclay–Vesey Building's design has been widely praised by architectural critics, both for its design scheme and for its symbolism. The Barclay–Vesey Building's architects intended for the structure to have an imposing form, with vertical piers designed as buttresses setbacks at upper floors and a program of elaborate ornamentation on the exterior and interior. In 2016, part of the building was converted into 100 Barclay, a residential condominium development. Restoration of the building and damaged communications infrastructure after the attacks took three years and cost $1.4 billion. The building, being adjacent to the original World Trade Center to the south and 7 World Trade Center to the east, experienced major damage in the September 11 attacks following the collapse of the World Trade Center. The Barclay–Vesey Building was constructed from 1923 to 1927 and was the longtime corporate headquarters of New York Telephone and its successor Verizon Communications.

It occupies the entire block bounded by West Street to the west, Barclay Street to the north, Vesey Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east, abutting the World Trade Center. The 32-story building was designed in the Art Deco style by Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and was Walker's first major commission as well as one of the first Art Deco skyscrapers. The Barclay–Vesey Building (also known as 100 Barclay, the Verizon Building, and formerly the New York Telephone Company Building) is an office and residential building at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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