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| The Bush Terminal Building. Helmle & Corbett, 1918. As long as we're in the neighborhood of the Knick: brief detour from Times Square, and a brief jump ahead in time, if you don't mind.A peculiar building - 30 stories tall, 90 feet wide. It was designed as a showroom building for displaying merchandise to wholesalers, and was constructed with the assumption that it would eventually be flanked by buildings of equal size. Hence the blank walls. But those buildings weren't built. At least not at press time. It was regarded as an impressive and ingenious building it its time, and even now, standing out alone on 42nd avenue, it commands the street. It just doesn't know what to do with it. | |
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