Transportation Building (Manhattan)

The Transportation Building is a 44-story skyscraper located 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.

Transportation Building
(2010)
General information
Architectural styleRenaissance Revival[1]
Address225 Broadway
Manhattan, New York City
Completed1927
Height545.01 feet (166.12 m)[1]
Technical details
Floor count44
Design and construction
ArchitectYork & Sawyer

The site of the Transportation Building had previously been the northern portion of the Astor House, New York's first 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. Transportation Building at Emporis
  2. Gabrielan, Randall (2007). Along Broadway. Arcadia Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7385-5031-2.
  3. Watson, Edward B.; Gillon, Edmund V. (2012). New York Then and Now. Courier Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-486-13106-1.
  4. Dunlap, David W. (July 7, 1999) "Commercial Property; Former Astor Office Building Looks Back, and Up" The New York Times
  5. 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
  6. Saxon, Wolfgang (October 29, 2002) "Edward Mortola, 85; Oversaw Expansion at Pace", The New York Times

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