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GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
Anthony W. Robins is a historian, writer, and lecturer specializing in New York City architecture and development. He is the author of Classics of American Architecture: The World Trade Center and STC’s Subway Style, and he has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and Architectural Record. He formerly served as Director of Survey at the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. The New York Transit Museum, located in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn Heights, is one of only a few museums in the world dedicated to telling the story of urban public transportation. The museum collects, exhibits, interprets, and preserves the history, sociology, and technology of public transportation systems in the New York metropolitan region and conducts research and educational programs that make its extensive collection accessible and meaningful to the broadest possible audience.
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
Opened in February 1913, Grand Central
100 YEARS OF A NEW YORK LANDMARK
Terminal—one of the country’s great architectural monuments—helped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the
BY THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM AND ANTHONY W. ROBINS INTRODUCTION BY TONY HISS
next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, thanks to its rescue and restoration,
100 YEARS OF A NEW YORK LANDMARK
it sits astride Park Avenue at 42nd Street in all its original splendor, attracting visitors by the thousands. This new book celebrates Grand Central’s Centennial by tracing the Terminal’s history and design, and showcasing two hundred photographs of its wonders—from the well-trodden Main Concourse, with its striking
BY THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM AND ANTHONY W. ROBINS INTRODUCTION BY TONY HISS
Jacket front: Photograph by Frank English, 2006. Jacket back: Photography by John Collier, 1941. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection.
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ceiling painted with glowing goldleaf constellations, to its massive power station hidden ten stories below. Archival photographs from the collections of the New York Transit Museum and other collections, as well as the stunning photos by Frank English, official photographer of MetroNorth Railroad for more than twentyfive years, capture every corner of this astonishing complex.
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ISBN 978-1-58479-994-8
Printed in China
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