Chrysler Building Chrysler eventually built and paid for the building's subway entrance. Work on the new entrance started in March 1930 and it opened along with the Chrysler Building two months later. The basement also had a "hydrozone water bottling unit" that would filter tap water into drinkable water for the building's tenants. The drinkable water would then be bottled and shipped to higher floors. The private Cloud Club formerly occupied the 66th through 68th floors. It opened in July 1930 with some three hundred members, all wealthy males who formed the city's elite. Its creation was spurred by Texaco's wish for
Cable Building (New York City) Schimenti in 1989. Part of the ground floor and all of the second floor has been occupied since 2002 by a 40,217 square-foot Crate & Barrel store. Offices tenant the other seven floors. The building was designated as part of the NoHo Historic District in 1999 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The report stated: However, the Cable Building is not currently listed in its own right on the National Register of Historic Places. Cable Building (New York City) The Cable Building is located at 611 Broadway at the northwest corner with Houston Street in NoHo and Greenwich