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
New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad Administration Building in 1980. It is the only free-standing National Register building that serves as the entrance to a New York City subway station. The offices on the building's upper floors house employees in the New York Transit Authority's rapid transit operations, signals and structures divisions. The original architect of the building was Alfred T. Fellheimer, who also worked on the Grand Central Terminal. Fellheimer designed it to resemble an Italian villa. The New York City Transit Authority budgeted $66.6 million for renovation of the structure in 2012. The renovation project was a collective effort, led by Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects in