Grand Central Terminal

Looking Back at How New York City Was Planned

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 7, 2022

James Sanders, architect, author, filmmaker, and co-writer with Ric Burns of the eight part PBS series, "New York: A Documentary Film" and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 2021), talks about the exhibition at Grand Central Terminal his studio produced and designed - to honor the centennial of the Regional Plan Association - called The Constant Future: A Century of the Regional Plan.

→ The Constant Future: A Century of the Regional Plan will free and open to the public be through October 24th at Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall.


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