Board of Transportation Building

Caption: "Board of Transportation Building--Architect's drawing of the nearly completed $8,000,000 transit building on Jay St., between Willoughby [Street] and Myrtle Ave., which ... will be opened soon after Jan. 1. Atop the 13-story building there will be a penthouse housing the city's largest private telephone exchange, serving far-flung city transportation system. The northern facade will overlook the projected Brooklyn Civic Center. The new headquarters for the city's unified transit system will be an L-shaped building on 42,000 feet of city-owned land. A section along Pearl St. will be only six stories high because of zoning restrictions;" several pedestrians, several automobiles, several commercial buildings in right background, and several commercial/residential buildings in left background.