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
67th New York Infantry 67th New York Infantry The 67th New York Infantry was a regiment of the Union Army, which was raised in Brooklyn in 1861 at the beginning of the American Civil War. May and June 1861: The 67th Regiment, New York Volunteers (their official State Designation) was organized in Brooklyn, New York, under special authority of the War Department. The 67th received its State numerical designation August 19, 1861. The official recruiting office was on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. Companies A, B, and E were known as "Beecher's Pets", after Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, dedicated