Might have. When i began this book and met with my colleagues at Grand Central publishing we came up with the title, Grand Central how a train station transformed america. Then i went home and said did it . That is an ambitious agenda to have to live up to. I realized that it easily did that. The more i researched the book, the more i realized this was a transformative place. Stop and think if you go anywhere in the world and say this place is like Grand Central station, Everybody Knows what you are talking about. It is a metaphor for frenzy, chaos, people recognize it all over. Grand central has been the side of ransom demands, homecomings, hope filled send offs, the target of nazi saboteurs, terrorist bombs. Passengers have included president s, kids left for summer camp, and soldiers who went to war. Everyone has a favorite Grand Central moment. Ben cheever whose father chronicled the suburban commuter, said it is as inviting as a rich persons house with the doors thrown wide open.
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Completed in 1952 in New York, United States. The Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was one of the first glass International style office buildings in the United States..