Design and construction 370 Jay Street

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the money train door in jay street ind station, leading 370 jay street s money sorting room.


in 1938, board of transportation began plans relocate central headquarters. architectural firm eggers & higgins drafted original plans new board of transportation headquarters in 1939, projected cost $3.6 million. site @ jay , willoughby streets condemned in 1928 construction of jay street–borough hall station of independent subway system (ind), parking lot created on site. sold realty company involved in building s construction new york city board of estimate @ cost of $365,000. site selected in anticipation of unification of transit system, occur 1 year later. contract building awarded george a. fuller company. construction of building did not commence, however, due onset of world war ii.


new plans drafted william haugaard in 1948. original design altered, including changes outer facade , addition of arcades @ both ends of structure. building being constructed part of greater brooklyn civic center, several other government buildings being erected in surrounding area. ground broke on site on october 8, 1948. building erected @ time when many other bot transit facilities being built. headquarters opened on april 1, 1951, on 2 years after death of haugaard. cost $10 million construct. bot proceeded vacate former headquarters, 1 @ hudson street @ entrance holland tunnel in hudson square, manhattan, , other in former paramount theatre in downtown brooklyn. on may 8, 1952, subway entrances between building s south arcade , jay street ind station, including 4 escalators, completed.


in column new yorker published april 25, 1953, architectural critic lewis mumford praised building s design, calling model of efficient office building. not cathedral of commerce, not temple of advertising, not palace of municipal power: group of offices arranged efficient dispatch of administration.








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