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42nd Street Airlines Terminal

42nd Street Airline Terminal
Interactive map of the 42nd Street Airline Terminal area
Demolished
Art Deco
New York City, New York, United States
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January 26, 1941
John B. Peterkin

The 42nd Street Airlines Terminal, on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, was the first of three airline terminals constructed in New York City. It was located at the site of the former Hotel Belmont. During this period of aviation, reservations, ticketing and baggage handling took place at this facility for the airlines American, Eastern, TWA, United and Pan Am. Passengers would be transferred by bus to Newark Airport, and later to the New York International Airport.

The changing economics and increasing popularity of air travel eventually led to the creation of new air terminals: the East Side Airline Terminal near the Queens Midtown Tunnel and the West Side Airlines Terminal near the Lincoln Tunnel. In 1954 this facility, which had become restricted to ticketing only, was renamed the Airlines Building. The declining importance of the facility led to its demolition in 1978, to become the site of the Philip Morris Building at 120 Park Avenue.

Peterkin, John B. (March 1941). "The Airlines Terminal" (PDF). Pencil Points. Vol. XXII, no. 3. pp. 143–162.
42nd Street (East) - Park Avenue South, southwest corner – Photograph of Airlines Terminal Building taken by Wurts Brothers on March 15, 1941 at the New York Public Library

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