LAZ Parking: Battery Parking Garage (New York City, New York)

 garage, parking

7-story parking garage originally completed in 1950. Designed by Ole Singstad for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA), it was constructed of concrete and was built in conjunction with the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, situated just north of the tunnel exits. In 1965, a 7-story addition designed by Lionel Levy was built, spanning over the lanes of the tunnel exits and extending to West and Morris Streets. The addition brought the combined capacity of the garage to over 2,000 cars.

The original structure's concrete facade is horizontally grooved for texture, with wide, open bays to the parking decks within. The southeastern corner is rounded, with two vertical bands of Art-Deco glass blocks facing south. Following the path of the exits lanes from the tunnel, the facade of the garage then angles northwest, with four more columns of glass blocks, and a large panel spanning them near the base which reads "BATTERY PARKING GARAGE - TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE AND TUNNEL AUTHORITY", with a large decorative bronze seal on either side. At the left end of this facade are shorter, horizontal bands of glass blocks before the western wall of the original building continues up Washington Street. At the north end of Greenwich Street the ground floor is occupied by office space, now leased to 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology.

The addition was renovated in 2001, with a new skin of light-grey metal panels around the existing areas of metal lattice. The lower two levels (and the columns supporting the 5-story bridge over the traffic lanes) are clad in orange brick (the columns also have dark brown accent bricks). At the northwest corner of the southern end, translucent glass panels run most of the height of the structure, with a large "P" and "Battery Parking Garage" printed in blue. The southeast corner of the south end has a wall of clear glass windows.

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