No Ordinary Landmark: How New York City Saved Grand Central Terminal and Preserved Urban Spaces

The dramatic story of how New Yorkers saved Grand Central Terminal and established the precedent for preserving urban landmarks.

No Ordinary Landmark tells the legal story of how Grand Central Terminal became a landmark. This is the fascinating, littleknown history of the railroad company that owned Grand Central, the architects and engineers who built it, the city that supported it, and the lawsuit that saved it. The cast of characters is immense: some familiar, like Mayor Robert Wagner and...