One Grand Central Place, originally the Lincoln Building, is a 53-story, tall

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office building at 60 East 42nd Street in

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. It is bounded by

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to the west, East 41st Street to the south, and

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to the east. One Grand Central Place is near other skyscrapers such as the

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, and

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. It has direct in-building access to

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to the north. As of 2021, it is the 91st-tallest building in the city, tied with the 277 Fifth Avenue,

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, and

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. The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10165; it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes .

Description and history

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, the skyscraper was completed in 1930 as the Lincoln Building. Among the building's features are the Gothic windows at the top. In June 2009, the Lincoln Building was renamed One Grand Central Place, and it underwent 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 had New York's first reported person-to-person spread of

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during the

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Abraham Lincoln sculpture

In 1956,

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, $3,000 to acquire

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's bronze model of

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, a

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of one of the sketches used to create the

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for the

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. Wien put the sculpture on display in the visitor's center in the lobby. When the building was renamed One Grand Central Place in 2009, the model was removed and loaned to Chesterwood estate in

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. It was returned to the lobby on April 15, 2015.

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Description and history

Abraham Lincoln sculpture

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