Building type
Terminals, viaducts, subway structures, and ferry buildings that show transportation as city-building.
Transit landmarks are where infrastructure becomes architecture. The group is compact, but it includes some of the clearest evidence of how circulation networks helped shape entire Manhattan districts.
7 building histories
Transit · 1904
72nd Street & Broadway, New York, NY
The 72nd Street Subway Kiosk, or Control House, which occupies a prominent site at the intersection of Broadway and 72nd Street, is one of only three such structures surviving in the city. Built to serve New York City's...
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State St & Battery Pl, New York, NY
The Battery Park Control House is an entrance and exit for the Bowling Green Station of the Lexington Avenue Interborough Rapid Transit Line. It stands near the original shoreline of Manhattan Island, close to the site...
Read the storyTransit · 1909
11 South Street, New York, NY
Viewed from a ferry boat approaching the tip of Manhattan, the monumental arched openings of the Municipal Ferry Terminal at the mouth of the East River appear like three tunnels opening into the canyons of the city....
Read the storyTransit · 1871
26 West 56th Street, New York, NY
Remodeled in 1907-08 by the noted architect Harry Allan Jacobs for investment banker Isaac Seligman and long occupied by banker E. Hayward Ferry and his wife Amelia Parsons Ferry, this highly intact former townhouse is...
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89 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913. The firms Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore designed the terminal, combining the practical demands of moving passengers with monumental public rooms. Its development...
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Park Ave & E 42nd St, New York, NY
Located at Park Avenue and 42nd Street, the Pershing Square Viaduct was constructed in 1917-1919. The viaduct extends from 40th Street to Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street, linking upper and lower Park Avenue by way...
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Battery Park, New York, NY
Pier A, a picturesque structure jutting into Upper New York Bay, is the last survivor of a maritime complex in the area that once included a firehouse and wharf, a breakwater, a boat landing, and just to the north of...
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