Lehigh Valley's West 27th Street Yard 1901 - 1966
1900: Yard Design by Lehigh Valley’s Chief Engineer Walter G. Berg.
1901: Construction Begins.
1905: Yard Opens for service
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From the Western Railroad Club Official Proceeding for the year 1901 Page 132 available on Google Books.
Scanned from George Bromley 1914 map of 27th Street. Note: Street tracks missing connection to Terminal Stores and the B&O at 26th Street.
1929: Lehigh Valley enters partnership with the Starrett Brothers (The Starrett Investment Corporation) to build a twenty story manufacturing center above the yard. The firm of Cory & Cory; Yasuro engaged to design an “International Style” building.
1930: Construction Begins
1931: June 30th, Fire hits the construction site. December 6th, Yard and the Starrett-Lehigh open for business. Lehigh Valley pays eight million. Photo By Berenice Abbott March 1st, 1938
1944: November 13th, Lehigh Valley sells both the Starrett-Lehigh and the Bronx Terminal.
1962: The Pennsylvania Railroad petitions the ICC for complete control of the LVRR.
1965: Last published map showing 27th Street in operation.
1966: Operations Terminate at 27th Street (New York Time May 31, 1998)
1974: August 21st, Sold to Harry Helmsley in a foreclosure sale for two point two-one million dollars.
1986: Designated as a landmark.
1998: Sold for one hundred and fifty two million and a one hundred million in renovations applied.
2011: April the Starrett-Lehigh sold for nine hundred million. |