Adirondack Trailways Ticket Plaza — Port Authority Bus Terminal
The mysterious 'Railways' line is solved: it is Adirondack Trailways, turning the entry into a plausible bus-terminal job.
Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photographed in 2006; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2006 · Photo: Roger Rowlett · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Very strong
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Adirondack Trailways Ticket Plaza — 1981
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-156
2 of two
“Adirondack Trailways Ticket Plaza — 1981”
The family list clearly names Adirondack Trailways and a ticket plaza in 1981.
The Trailways entry fits the Port Authority Bus Terminal’s late-1970s North Wing expansion era and the bus company’s active terminal presence.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: most likely heavy-duty CMU/concrete-block enclosure and equipment-room walls, interior partitions, shafts and masonry backup; specialized refractory/stone work should not be assumed without specifications.
This scope is recorded as probable, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Unknown
Port Authority Bus Terminal, 625 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY — leading hypothesis
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01gao.gov
pad 79 32
- 02panynj.gov
port authority
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Port authority terminal.jpg
- Roger Rowlett · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · 2006-05
Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photographed in 2006; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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