This monument to industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt is perilously located at the south facades of Grand Central Terminal. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)

Vanderbilt is Dangerously Distant

Joseph Kellard January 13, 2016

This was a tough photo to get. The monument to Cornelius Vanderbilt, by Ernst Plassmann (1823 – 1877), resides at the south facade of Grand Central Terminal, where the Park Avenue Viaduct wraps around the nation's busiest railroad station and other buildings.