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Bush Terminal Building
Bush Terminal Building

View Feb. 21, 1938 S.E. from 43rd St. W. of 6th Ave.

Looking south of the Bush Building, at 130 West 42nd St.; the Empire State Building is visible at the far left.

IMAGE DATE1938
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Bush Terminal Building ca. 1938

Erected in 1917 by Irving T. Bush, the businessman who created the massive Bush Terminal warehouse and factory complex in Brooklyn, the Bush Terminal Sales Building at 130 W. 42nd St. was one of the last of the tall towers to rise without the setbacks the 1916 zoning law required. Its architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was a leading advocate of the setback form, but he was happy to oblige his client with a slender tower of stacked showroom floors that imitated a Gothic spire.

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