Gateway to A Continent Grand Central Zone Hard Cover

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The Gateway to A Continent

Hard Cover

Pages 34

Contents

Grand Central Terminal

Hotels

Apartments

Office Buildings

Map

Showing the Grand Central Area in New York City

Forward

In the making of this book, and its presentation to the public, there are two primary aims:

First, to record the epochal changes and architectural triumphs from which the Grand Central Zone has emerged as a major contribution to New York's progress;

Secondly, to point out the advantages in this unique concentration of great hotels, fine apartments, office buildings and modern transportation facilities ... at the heart of the world's Metropolis.

Individual properties of the Grand Central development have been frequently pictured and described, but it has remained for this brochure to assemble all of them in a great cooperative unit a "City within a City" and to interpret them thus in terms of ever-broadening public service.

This was the ideal-behind the Grand Central plan at its inception, and the key to all of the achievements which followed. It is still an unfailing inspiration.

There is ample evidence that the Grand Central Zone keynotes the city-planning of the future; that it pioneers a new era of beauty, comfort and gracious living at the very threshold of teeming businessyet restfully apart from it. In this book is presented for the first time the story of that achievement . with the sincere hope that it will be found useful as well as interesting.

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