Bowling Green IRT Control House
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The Bowling Green IRT Control House or Battery Park Control House is located underneath Bowling Green Park at the southen end of Broadway in Lower Manhattan - New York, New York. This entry to the subway was built in 1905 by Heins & LaFarge on the west side of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
Along with its twin control house for the IRT station at 72nd Street and Broadway. This building is a reminder of the glory of New York's first subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Although most of the original subway's entry points had steel and glass kiosks, important stations like this one were marked with brick and stone structures meant to resemble garden pavilions. "Control house" refers to its function of controllinig the comings and goings of passengers in and out of the station.
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