Grand Central Centennial

We’re tantalizingly close to the next phase of this project, and I should have news to post as soon as next Monday.  Meanwhile, I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while, so if you’re at interested in New York City history, architecture, and just all-around awesomeness, you should definitely go check out Grand Central’s Centennial website.  Click on the events tab and you can scroll through the full year’s worth of festivities.  Penn Station would have celebrated its Centennial last year; sadly, 2013 is the 50^th Anniversary of the start of the demolition.   If you don’t pass through Grand Central on a regular basis, it’s worth a special visit, if only to get a bit of a sense of what might have been.

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Grand Central Centennial

49 Years Ago this week

"Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance." --- New York Times editorial

I'll have more to write about this, but for now I'll just say that that photo utterly destroys me every time I see it.