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Varick Street is named for Richard Varick, an early New York lawmaker and the mayor of New York City from 1789 to 1801, who owned property in the area. [1]In 1853, Heinrich Englehard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway) [2] founded the first American Steinway & Sons factory in a loft at the back of 85 Varick Street.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City.It is the busiest bus terminal in the world by volume of traffic, [2] serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year.
[13] [14] On August 9, 1964, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million (equivalent to $74,662,661 in 2023) contract to lengthen platforms at stations on the Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line from Rector Street to 34th Street–Penn Station, including Houston Street, and stations from Central Park North ...
201 Varick Street, Manhattan In the 1970s, the lab's worldwide sampling programs were expanded to include non-nuclear pollutants. In 1975 the Health and Safety Laboratory became part of the Energy Research and Development Administration , later absorbed by the US Department of Energy , and changed its name to the Environmental Measurements ...
The Canal Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Canal and Varick Streets in the TriBeCa and SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights.
The George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey was opened in 1931; only its current upper deck existed at the time. [14] As early as 1952, the PANYNJ (at the time the Port of New York Authority) had proposed widening a one-block stretch of 178th Street between Fort Washington Avenue and Broadway and creating a bus terminal there.
Flag used by the Port Authority, a bicolor of Buff and Blue with the coat of arms of New Jersey and New York surmounted on gold fringe. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United ...
The 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station is an express stop that abuts the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The A and E trains stop here at all times, [47] [48] while the C train stops here at all times except late nights. [49] It has one operational platform level, two offset island platforms, and a long mezzanine.