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
Edmund Varney Herkimer County Court. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Herkimer Co.) in 1826. He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) from 1842 to 1845, sitting in the 65th, 66th, 67th and 68th New York State Legislatures. He was buried at the Gravesville Cemetery in Russia NY. Edmund Varney Edmund Varney (June 6, 1778 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York – December 2, 1847 in Russia, Herkimer County, New York) was an American farmer and politician from New York. He was the son of John Varney and Thankful (Goodspeed) Varney (1746–1820). He