Named after 42nd Street and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, linked to the station.
The terminal, run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, opened on 15 December 1950 to bring together several private bus terminals spread across Midtown. 42nd Street was one of the 15 wide cross streets of the 1811 street plan; in 1835 the city opened the plotted lots up to it, and for a time it became the city’s northern boundary.