Wednesday, June 22, 2022 – WHEN YOU HAD TO GO, A CHARMING BUILDING PROVIDED COMFORT

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WEDNESDAY,  JUNE 22,  2022



708th Issue

COMFORT STATIONS

STYLE AND DESIGN FOR THESE

PUBLIC NECESSITIES

FROM:

 

  THE NEW YORK CITY MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

Our city probably built the most wonderful comfort stations.  Most are gone or in poor condition.  Enjoy the tour.

Description:  Comfort Station under elevated train
Date:  1910-1920

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Commemorative Plaque above comfort station. Jeanette Park was adjacent to the Seaman’s Church Institute near South Street. Apparently the comfort station was in back of the band-shell, 1924

Dedication on dome to merchant seamen of World War I, man in door

Public Comfort Station, Crotona Park, East Tremont Avenue and 3rd Avenue, Bronx, 1926

Comfort Station, Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, 1928

Comfort Station at Tremont Avenue and 177th Street, Bronx; newly completed, 1926

Pelham Bay Park: Concessions Building and comfort station 1941

Comfort station, benches in foreground, large apartment houses on 85th Street in background, 1951

Comfort Station by El tracks, Brooklyn,1938

Seward Park: Girl’s side Comfort station  with decorative stars above the door and patterned brick , 1941

Corlear’s Hook Park: East River Comfort Station, 1941

COMFORT STATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION ,1941
BUILDING PRIOR TO DEMOLTION
NEW BUILDING 2020

Combined Ticket Office-Concession-Comfort Station, Battery Park; Rendering by Aymar Embury II, 1944

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Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
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