First Federal Savings & Loan Association of New York, 237 1st Ave., southwest corner of 14th St. (1986)

One would like to know who designed this unusual sign with the upside down name and the tumbling dollars delivering the dreams of an IRA, vacations, college, apartments, and a "Statesman Club" (what is that?).

According to www.faqs.org the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of New York was established in 1934 and was acquired in 1982 by the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rochester.

The building is located at the southwest corner of 14th St. and 1st Ave., and it was constructed in 1949. It is described at www.metrohistory.com, in New Building Notice 49-103, as a "5-sty bank & office bldg, 43 x 60." The architects were R. B. O'Connor and W. H. Kilham Jr., 101 Park Ave. The name of the bank is inscribed above the second story windows on both street sides (click for image).

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