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<title>Grand Central Turns 100 : Responses</title>
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<dc:date>2013-01-31T17:01:07-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Grand Central Turns 100"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Large, drafty, kind of dirty--that can describe New York architecture in general. But it doesn't stop every writer from being obsessed with it. <br />
Grand Central is nice, but i'm sure it has gotten quite the facelift over the years judging by its fresh looks. The old Penn could have used the same--that glass above would have been quite the sight to see. ]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Grand Central Turns 100"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[it is a wonderful place, no doubt about that.<br />
thus maybe indicating that starch itects cannot solve all problems<br />
is not the post office next door called "Grand Central Station", my memory seems to indicate that that is name above the door?]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2013-01-31T04:22:52-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Grand Central Turns 100"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Never having experienced the McKim, Mead & White station in the flesh, I don't know that I can validly compare the two, but from what contemporary accounts lead me to believe, the old Penn Station was large, drafty, kind of dirty...certainly not the ne plus ultra of the firm's work. GCT IS Whitney Warren's masterpiece, and I have the sense that in spite of its vastness it has a kind of intimacy in the main concourse that Penn Station lacked. Warren certainly had plenty of talent backing him up with Wetmore, and Reed and Stem, but the aesthetics of the place I think were mostly his and truly worthy of a great metropolis. Does anyone know if it's true that the Yacht Club (Warren's other masterpiece) drew free electricity from GCT for decades, or is this another urban myth? (And yes, you must find a way to get a member of the latter to show you the "Model Room" as it is modestly named before you die...the fireplace surround is like nothing to be seen outside of the European Baroque at its most sumptuous).]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2013-01-30T21:31:32-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Grand Central Turns 100"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Sad to say, but the original Penn Station was better. ]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2013-01-28T21:47:25-05:00</dc:date>
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