U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station (New York City, New York) | kiosk, interesting place, 1946_construction, recruiting office (military)

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 kiosk, interesting place, 1946_construction, recruiting office (military)
1-story building completed in 1946. The station sits on a small traffic island between Broadway and 7th Ave. The 520-square-feet station is home to a recruiter from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Each recruiter has one cubicle, which, along with a small bathroom in the back of the station, is about all the station has room for. It was renovated in 1998 by Architecture Research Office, and rededicated in 1999. For more than fifty years before the rededication, the recruiters didn't even have a bathroom.

The box-shaped structure is composed of stainless-steel and glass. Fluorescent lights coated in red, white, and blue 3M reflective gels ride between the custom window wall and its mullions on the west and east facades, depicting an American flag in lights. The entrance is through the north side, where a video board tops the wall. The south facade is a metal mesh screen, with metal letters at the top reading "U.S. ARMED FORCES RECRUITING STATION", above the four round seals of the service branches.

The Times Square recruiting station historically has had strong numeric performance. It is also called the Neon Flag for its decorative wall art on the 7th Ave and on the Broadway facades.
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Coordinates:   40°45'24"N   73°59'10"W

Comments

  • Local rumor says the structure got there was a way to make a usable mini-office out of the necessary utilitarian street-level exhaust duct for the subway tracks. The side one enters does indeed have a large grate over the door (visible in the Neon Flag photo above).
  • The closed up pic above, the bright colored, one is personal shot taken by my daughter last April 2010, when she visited New York for training seminar in IBM Learning Center, Armonk, New York
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