The plan posits that Midtown’s future is dependent on the establishment of the Grand Central neighborhood as a place people enjoy experiencing not just traversing.  By reconnecting Park Avenue, opening Vanderbilt Avenue to the layers below, and creating a place underneath the MetLife building, Grand Central will have the framework to thrive for the next 100 years.  

The proposal transforms Vanderbilt Avenue into a pedestrian street, creates new public spaces around the base of the MetLife building, adapts the west side of the current Park Avenue Viaduct into an elevated pedestrian walkway and bikeway with a glass floor and seasonal plantings, and introduced a new tower on the west side of Grand Central.