A post office since the seventies, the booking hall is a fantastic relic of the “golden age of travel.” According to www.nyc-architecture.com the hall is “awash in things marine: starfish, seahorses, shells, sirens, an albatross, and the vessels of Columbus and others. All are celebrated in paintings, murals, and medallions. The grandly presented theme underscores the power and reach of the Cunard Line when its new headquarters opened in 1919.”

25 Broadway’s new tenants is going to be, according to the New York Times, The National Sports Museum, and will be the permanent home of the Heisman Trophy. Hopefully the murals and decoration in the Booking Hall will still be accessible to the public.

(although I suspect that it will cost $35 to get in, and the interior of the building will be obscured by floor to ceiling video screens and tee-shirt displays. Prove me wrong National Sports Museum)