One Grand Central Place


One Grand Central Place, originally the Lincoln Building, is a 53-story, high-rise office building located at 60 East 42nd Street in the Midtown Manhattan, New York City, opposite Grand Central Terminal. It is bounded by Madison Avenue to the west, East 41st Street to the south, and Park Avenue to the east.
Designed in neo-Gothic style by architect Kenneth Norton of James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr., the skyscraper was completed in 1930. At tall, it is tied with the Barclay Tower as the 81st tallest building in New York City, though it is dwarfed by other buildings in the area, including the Chrysler Building, MetLife Building, and One Vanderbilt across the street. It also has a direct in-building access to Grand Central Terminal.
Among the building's features are the Gothic windows at the top. In June 2009, the Lincoln Building name was changed to One Grand Central Place, and it has undergone a $85 million renovation, which included new windows, renovated elevators, renovated air-conditioned public corridors and restrooms, and upgraded building-wide systems.
In March 2020, One Grand Central Place was at the center of New York's first reported person-to-person spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

Abraham Lincoln sculpture

In 1956, Lawrence Wien purchased Daniel Chester French's 3′ bronze model of Abraham Lincoln—a cast of one of the sketches used to create the statue for the Lincoln Memorial—from his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, for $3,000. The sculpture was put on display in the visitor's center, located in the lobby, in the same year. When the building was renamed One Grand Central Place in 2009, the model was removed and loaned to Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was put back on display on April 15, 2015.