Architect: Warren & Wetmore
Date Constructed: 1913

One of the busiest train stations anywhere, Grand Central Terminal is also one of New York City’s most spectacular interior spaces. Built in the 1890s, the interior ceiling is 125 feet high and decorated as a night sky. On the outside, above the southern entrance, statues of Minerva, Mercury, and Hercules surround a 13–foot–high clock. As writer Paul Goldberger expressed it, “To step from a train platform into Grand Central’s extraordinary concourse… is to feel in every fiber that you have arrived someplace important, to know that you have come into a great city and that great city has greeted you properly.”