Transportation Building (Manhattan)

Last updated August 27, 2024

Transportation Building
(2010)

General information
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival ^[1]
Address	225 Broadway Manhattan, New York City
Completed	1927
Height	545.01 feet (166.12 m)^[1]
Technical details
Floor count	44
Design and construction
Architect(s)	York & Sawyer

The Transportation Building is a 44-story skyscraper at 225 Broadway on the corner of Barclay Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It also carries the address 2-4 Barclay Street. It was built in 1927 and was designed by the architecture firm of York & Sawyer, in the Renaissance Revival style,^[1] using setbacks common to skyscrapers built after the adoption of the 1916 Zoning Resolution.^[2] It sits across Barclay Street from the Woolworth Building.

The site of the Transportation Building had previously been the northern portion of the Astor House luxury hotel.^[3] The hotel went into a long decline which began in the 1850s with the building of newer, more luxurious hotels. In 1913, the southern part was razed and replaced in 1915-16 with the Astor House Building at 217 Broadway, which is still extant. The northern part was torn down in 1926 to make way for the Transportation Building.^[4]

One of the first tenants of the Transportation Building was the Pace Institute – the predecessor of the school that is now Pace University – which moved into the new building in 1927 and remained until the 1950s.^[5]^[6]

References

1 2 3 "Emporis building ID 115584". Emporis . Archived from the original on October 18, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
↑ Gabrielan, Randall (2007). Along Broadway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7385-5031-2.
↑ Watson, Edward B.; Gillon, Edmund V. (2012). New York Then and Now. Courier Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-486-13106-1.
↑ Dunlap, David W. (July 7, 1999) "Commercial Property; Former Astor Office Building Looks Back, and Up" The New York Times
↑ Weigold, Marily F. "Pace University" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2., p.965
↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (October 29, 2002) "Edward Mortola, 85; Oversaw Expansion at Pace", The New York Times

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