Port Authority Bus Terminal, Eighth Avenue at Forty-first Street, New York City. One block from Times Square

[ca. 1930–1945]

Port Authority Bus Terminal, Eighth Avenue at Forty-first Street, New York City. Largest in the world, $24,000,000 Port Authority Bus Terminal opened December, 1950, was built by the Port of New York Authority, the self-supporting joint agency of the States of New Jersey and New York, to relieve street traffic congestion in Manhattan and to provide a several thousand long distance bus travelers who daily enter and leave New York.