Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station building
40-02 75th Street | also 74-20 Roosevelt Avenue, 75 Street | Elmhurst | built 1960
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1941
Broadway actor Victor Moore opens a bus terminal arcade beside the subway
Victor Moore, a Broadway performer from Freeport, won Board of Estimate approval in 1940 for a $375,000 bus terminal bearing his name, inviting board members to his show Louisiana Purchase. The Victor Moore Arcade opened on December 11, 1941, and became Triboro Coach's hub for transfers to buses, including to LaGuardia Airport. It stood on the site of today's station building.
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- 1999
The MTA buys the Victor Moore Arcade to clear room for a new station entrance
Until 1997 Triboro Coach rented the arcade from its owner, Arnold Gumowitz, for $1 a year. In March 1999 the MTA paid Gumowitz $9.5 million for it; later that year it began buying out 25 merchants' leases, intending to build the station's new main entrance where the arcade stood. The arcade's layout was awkward: bus riders had to go outside or through a bakery to reach the trains.
“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) acquired the Victor Moore Arcade in March 1999, paying Gumowitz $9.5 million.”
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- 2005
A new station house and the Jackson Heights bus terminal open
The new building, designed by Stantec, was finished in 2005, and its bus terminal opened on July 13 that year. The renovation drew complaints: the MTA had pulled the payphones that April, and State Senator John Sabini pressed for their return, saying a woman had died at the station because, without phones, paramedics were hard to reach. The MTA agreed to restore them in August.
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- 2005
The station house is built as one of the MTA's first green buildings
Filling the block between Roosevelt Avenue, 75th Street, Broadway and 74th Street, the building draws part of its power from solar panels on its roof and over the elevated platform, added after a similar setup worked at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. Its concrete is 15 percent fly ash, its steel was prefabricated, and builders recycled 86 percent of their waste.
“The new station building is one of the first green buildings in the MTA system, which is partially powered by solar panels…”
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