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 Street (Manhattan) the opera "Manon Lescaut" by Giacomo Puccini, had been opposed by a member of Manhattan Community Board 7, who felt that the piece should have been placed in the Metropolitan Opera Hall of Fame, and not on public property. Notable current and former residents of 66th Street include: The 66th Street–Lincoln Center station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line is located at the intersection of 66th Street and Broadway. It is served by the trains. The M66 provides crosstown bus service between West 66th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side and East 67th Street and York