Grand Central Station
Vanderbilt Avenue (+ Lexington Avenue / 43rd Street / Park Avenue), New York
1903-13
Reed and Stem; Warren and Wetmore


Grand Central Station Photo © Tim Collins

Also called Grand Central Terminal, built for the New York and Harlem Railroad company.

Famous building backdrop from numerous American films, the station is designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture style popular in the early 20th century. An architecture competition took place in 1903 for the new Grand Central Station.

The other New York railway station - Penn Station - was constructed in a similar Beaux-Arts style but sadly demolished in 1966. It was designed by Charles McKim of McKim, Mead & White, Architects. Grand Central New York has 67 separate tracks on two levels. Refurbished in 1994 by LaSalle Partners & Williams Jackson Ewing.



Key New York buildings close to Grand Central Terminal:

Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue
1930
William Van Alen, Architect

Rockefeller Center
5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown, New York
1932-40
Raymond Hood, Architect

Seagram Building
375 Park Avenue, New York
1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building

New York Skyscrapers

New York World Trade Centre

Pennsylvania Station district redevelopment, Manhattan
2007-
Architects: Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Foster + Partners; Kohn Pedersen Fox
Incl. existing Penn Station, Madison Square Garden & 2 office towers

New York Architects

New York Architecture

Grand Central Station Photo © tim collins



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