US Coast Guard Manhattan Station

1 South Street | The Battery | built 1960

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1882

    An earlier building on this site: the granite Barge Office is built for Customs inspectors

    The Barge Office that stood on the Battery's tip, where the Coast Guard office and Battery Gardens now stand, was begun in spring 1880 and partly occupied by December 1882. Government architect James G. Hill gave it a Romanesque Revival design in Maine granite. It cost about $300,000 against a $210,000 appropriation in 1878, and it housed Customs offices and rooms for examining passengers suspected of smuggling.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1890

    An earlier building on this site: the Barge Office takes over immigrant processing from Castle Garden

    In April 1890 the Barge Office succeeded Castle Garden as New York's immigrant depot, while a new station was planned for Ellis Island. Arrivals faced medical inspection, and some judged unfit were sent back. After Ellis Island took over in 1900, a free employment bureau for immigrants opened here and received job requests from businesses across the country.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1942

    An earlier building on this site: Robert Moses removes the third Barge Office for the Battery Park Underpass

    After the granite Barge Office came down in 1911, a third version stood here until 1942. Robert Moses had it removed because it sat on the route of the Battery Park Underpass, and the granite foundation of the older Barge Office was uncovered during the work. Today a short stretch of South Street holds the Coast Guard office and Battery Gardens on the site.

    Source: Forgotten New York

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