The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-27
MONSTER TERMINAL BUILDING.
LARGEST OF OFFICE STRUCT-
URES GOING UP HERE.

It IN Part OF McAdo0 Tunnel System Un~
der the Hudson River and WIN Contain
About Three Times the space Of Broad
EXCHANGE Building Tunnel Progress.
Detailed facts relating 10 the New York
terminal buildings now under construction
for the New York and New Jersey Railroad.
| Of which william q. McAdoo is president,
and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
| OF which Walter @. Oakman is the head,
were given out yesterday.
There will be two buildings In Church
street, from Cortlandt TO Dey street and
from Dey to Fulton street. The northeriy
building will be known as the Fulton Build
ing and the s~outheriy as the Cortlandt'
They will each be twenty-five stories ABOVE
the surface and will extend rs feet below
the street line to bed rock. There VIII DO
space for 1000 Offices, and when comptetep'
IL il said, the terminals will constitute the
largest office structure in the world.
The structures will be examples OF Italian
"reminiscences. Up to the fourth story
they will be built Of polished granite ana
Indiana limestone. Above hat VIII DC
brick and terra Gotta. The halls will be OF
marble and the buildings will be finished
in hardwood throughout.
The proposed terminals will contain
about three times the space OF the Broad
Exchange Building. the largest at present
In Manhattan.
Beneath these buildings will be the ter
minal station OF the Hudson and Man.
haitian Railroad Company. which Will
operate the tunnels now being built under
the Hudson River. Passengers will enter
upon the street floor and pass down into the
station by means OF easy stairways, in
clined planes and elevators. The nrst
floor below the sidewalk will be known
as the ~concourse. Here will be the walt
ing rooms and ticket booths
Below this will be the train platforms.
There will be five tracks running between
six platforms. Passengers will pass out
Of a train just arrived on to an unloading
platform, the side doors OF the cars per-
hitting them to discharge their passengers
in a comparatively few seconds time. The
cars will be Of steel and capable Of seating
Hfty persons each. The passage under
the river, it is calculated, will average three
minutes, so that a resident OF Jersey City
should be able TO reach the heart OF the Man
haitian shopping district in from ten 10
fifteen minute
There are at present about 1000 men
engaged In the work Of the terminal, build
ing foundations and the tunnels proper.
Clinton 4 Russell Of 81 Nassau street, archi-
tects for the buildings, say at the present
rate OF erection they should be completed
by May 1, 1907.
OF the -four trolley tunnels now being
built under the North River, the two DOWN
town are about three-ffths completed
and the uptown completed to Sixth ave
nue., Manhattan. The two southern tun-
nels extend from Cortlandt and Fulton
streets, Manhattan, to Montgomery street,
Jersey City. There will be a transverse
tunnel in Jersey City extending along
shore beneath the tracks OF the Pennsyl-
vania, Erie and Lackawanna railroads, with
entrances at each station. The northerly
tunnels will extend from Fifteenth street,
Jersey City, to Morton street, New FORK.
The tubes will continue under Morton,
] Greenwich and Christopher streets to
I Sixth avenue, thence up TO the site OF the
Manhattan Theatre and the uptown ter
minal. At Christopher street and Sixth
avenue a branch will be continued east
ward under Ninth street, where 1t Will
connect with the PETERBOROUGH subway.
An interesting feature OF the present
work is a monster coferdam that has been
built under the Church street buildings.
1t is said to be the largest ever constructed.
This mode Of excavation was made neces-
sary by the wet ground extending TO the
rock bottom seventy-fve feet below. The
area covered is 400 feet frontage on Church
street and reaches a width of l75 feet to
the west. 1t is bounded by heavy concrete
walls.
Power for the operation Of tunnel cars
and the heating and lighting Of the termi-
nails will be supplied from Jersey City.
A central station similar to the new Thirty
eighth street New York Edison Company
plant is now being built there on the block
bounded by Washington, Bay, First and
Greene streets. 1t will be completed about
June 1, 1907.
IL is estimated that the entire outlay Of
money in the tunnel enterprises projected Ly
the companies will reach $40 900 600. The
Church street terminal buildings will cost
about s, 900 600.