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
66th New York Volunteer Infantry 66th New York Volunteer Infantry The 66th New York Volunteer Infantry (or National Guard Rifles) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 66th New York Infantry was organized at New York City, New York and mustered in for three years service on November 4, 1861, under the command of Colonel Joseph C. Pinckney. The regiment was attached to Graham's Brigade, Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to January 1862. French's Brigade, Sumner's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps, to March 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division,