The 42nd Street Airlines Terminal, on the southwest corner of

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and 42nd Street in

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, was the first of three airline terminals constructed in

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. It was located at the site of the former Hotel Belmont. During this period of aviation, reservations, ticketing and baggage handling took place at this facility for the airlines

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and

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. Passengers would be transferred by bus to

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, and later to the New York International Airport. The changing economics and increasing popularity of air travel eventually led to the creation of new air terminals: the East Side Airline Terminal near the

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and the

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near the

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. In 1954 this facility, which had become restricted to ticketing only, was renamed the Airlines Building. The declining importance of the facility led to its demolition in 1978, to become the site of the Philip Morris Building at

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