The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Grand Central Terminal
Beyond the beauty, this building's survival made history. After Penn Station was destroyed in 1963, the threat to Grand Central drove the 1965 Landmarks Law and a 1978 Supreme Court case (Penn Central v. NYC) that established cities' right to protect landmarks — with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis leading the fight. Every preserved building in America owes something to this concourse.
The 1913 terminal whose near-demolition created modern landmark law — saved by a Supreme Court case.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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