difficult days of the Great Depression, find itself moving into one that is, in architectural terms, a nonentity?" During the building's 1970s vacancy, Paul Goldberger called the lobby "one of the best rooms of the period in New York". When GHI bought the building, an opinion writer for The New York Times celebrated the fact that the "distinctive green giant" would be preserved, even though it was not yet an official landmark. The architect Rem Koolhaas said of the McGraw-Hill Building, "Once again Hood has combined two incompatibles in a single whole." See also Art Deco architecture of New York City List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets References Notes Citations Sources 1931 establishments in New York City 42nd Street (Manhattan) Art Deco architecture in Manhattan Art Deco skyscrapers Art Moderne architecture Office buildings completed in 1931 Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan International style architecture in New York City National Historic Landmarks in Manhattan New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan