Grand Central Terminal
There are train stations. And then there is Grand Central Terminal. It stands alone as the royal palace of American railroads. A cathedral to transportation and industry. A living monument to vision and ambition and hope. Once the home of the New York Central System and now the Long Island Railroad, Metro-North and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, there is nothing quite like it.
Even though it sits at the far eastern perimeter of the United States, Grand Central is — as it has always been — at the crossroads of American society. It was a national hub during World War II. It was the home to Henry Dreyfus’s Twentieth Century Limited. It has even been the set for many a Hollywood film. Today, more than a century after its construction, the Terminal remains at the very heart of New York City.
And yet, for all its majestic beauty, GCT for me is simply the best place in Manhattan to take pictures of people. Tourists. Commuters. Travelers. And perhaps above all, the curious. There are more cameras here — from cell phones to historic twin-lens reflex film cameras — the main concourse is a sanctuary of photographic possibility.
These are some of my favorites from my most recent visit.
