On the Page: Grand Central and J.G. Ballard
Grand Central: How a Station Transformed America
Sam Roberts
(Grand Central Publishing, 320 pp., $30)
Walking through Grand Central in 2013, one is struck by how inevitable the station feels—from the gently sloping walkways that lead into the main concourse to its location in the transportation-tangled, high-rise-shadowed heart of Manhattan. But as Sam Roberts reveals in Grand Central: How a Station Transformed America, nothing about Grand Central’s construction, design, preservation or even its continuing existence has been inevitable. Read More
