Here is the question :
WHAT NYC LANDMARK DID JACKIE KENNEDY HELP SAVE FROM DEMOLITION?
Here is the option for the question :
- Empire State Building
- Grand Central Terminal
- Guggenheim Museum
- Statue of Liberty
The Answer:
And, the answer for the the question is :
Explanation:
[STC001934] In the 1970s, when the Grand Central Terminal in New York City was in danger of being demolished, preservationists fought to rescue it, and they received assistance from none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. ‘If we don’t care about our past, we can’t have very much hope for our future,’ the former First Lady said at a press conference in the terminal’s famed Oyster Bar in 1975. She, along with a number of other New Yorkers, was adamant about preserving the historic building, despite the fact that its importance had diminished as a result of the decline in rail travel. Just behind the station was an existing tower, which was referred to at the time as the Pan Am building. Architect Marcel Breuer had been tasked with constructing a second tower directly on top of the concourse. At the time, the law in New York City designated Grand Central Station as a historic landmark, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis believed that the protection of historic landmarks was a “public good.” However, the owners of the property disagreed with its designation as a landmark and filed a lawsuit to have the designation overturned. However, in the end, Justice William Brennan Jr. ruled in favor of preservation, and more than four decades later, Grand Central Terminal is still standing, in no little part because of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.