Battery Park and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel NYC

Buildings facing Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan. Photo dated Thursday, January 24, 1952, Noon. Photographer Max Henry Hubacher (1900-1989). Source: Collection of photographs of the New York Public Library.

The granite-faced monumental ventilation building of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entrance, between Washington and Greenwich streets, is in the center. The tunnel officially opened in 1950. The Whitehall Building at 17 Battery Place (on the left), was completed in 1904. The 31-story Annex, behind it, on West Street, was completed in 1910. The Washington Building (One Broadway), northwest corner of Battery Place, opened in opened in 1884. It gained its present neoclassical style in a renovation, completed in 1921.

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