100 years of Grand Central Terminal: PHOTOS
February 01, 2013 06:00PM
By Hiten Samtani
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The terminal in 1937, as seen from the Campbell Apartments, the private office of financier John William Campbell (AP Photo/NYC Municipal Archives)
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The present-day Campbell Apartments, now a high-end cocktail lounge
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Commuters watch the launch of John Glenn's Friendship 7 spacecraft, February 20, 1962.
Credit: NASA photo
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An elevation drawing of the terminal by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem c. 1910 (Courtesy of New York Transit Museum)
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A meeting held during the 1970s as part of the landmark designation battle. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is pictured in the background.
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A frozen “flash mob” in the concourse
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The Oyster Bar inside the terminal (photo by flickr4jazz on Flickr)
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One of the winning sketches from a centennial sketchbook project by The Architectural League of New York and the New York Transit Museum in collaboration with Moleskine (sketch by Eriko Kawamura)
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Grand Central Terminal, an icon that is as quintessentially New York as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, celebrated its centenary today.
The 2 million-square-foot Beaux Arts building, currently owned by Argent Ventures, has had a tumultuous 100 years, including a 1975 battle to designate it a landmark that was championed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The recent Midtown East proposal could potentially unlock Grand Central’s 1.4 million square feet of unused air rights, allowing Argent to sell them to any developer within the Grand Central Subdistrict. The station is also set to undergo a major expansion and renovation in the coming years, as part of the $8.2 billion East Side Access megaproject.
The Real Deal looked at 10 images, taken across several decades, that capture the flavor of this monument.
