Nash Building

3280 Broadway | also 94 Old Broadway, 560 West 133rd Street | Manhattanville | built 1927

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.

1927
Warren-Nash builds what it calls the world's largest service station
Designed by Frank S. Parker and built in 1927, this six-story concrete building served the Warren-Nash Motor Corporation, which claimed it was the largest service station in the world. By 1929 it also held the company's offices and showrooms. With the Studebaker plant and other dealers and garages nearby, the stretch of Broadway became known as Automobile Row, and Nash stayed until at least 1941.
Source: nyc.gov
1929
Warren-Nash's wholesale and executive offices share the building with its showrooms
Architect Frank S. Parker designed the six-story reinforced-concrete building in 1927 as a maintenance building for the Warren-Nash Motor Corporation. By 1929 it also houses the company's wholesale and executive offices, along with automobile showrooms. Warren-Nash, later called Nash Motors, stays in the building until at least 1941.
Source: nyc.gov
1943
The Manhattan Project tests uranium-enrichment barrier in the Nash garage
During World War II Columbia University used the Nash garage as a pilot plant for the Manhattan Project, testing whether porous barrier material for the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be made on an industrial scale. Columbia physicists Edward Adler and Edward Norris and Kellex Corporation scientist Charles Johnson developed competing nickel-based methods, and the Kellex process was chosen for production.
Source: ahf.nuclearmuseum.org

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