| Transportation Building | |
| Address: | 225 Broadway Manhattan, New York City |
| Completion Date: | 1927 |
| Architect: | York & Sawyer |
| Floor Count: | 44 |
| Architectural Style: | Renaissance Revival[1] |
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, 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]