You are now standing in front
of Grand Central's beaux-arts facade facing 42nd street
.
Park Avenue goes up and around the building to go through
the terminal.
Grand Central Terminal (opened in 1913) and another equally
impressive train station -
Pennsylvania
Station (opened in 1910) - had been constructed
during the same period of time.
(Watch out the the clock and the crowning scrupture
at the top of the facade.)