WXY was one of three distinguished firms invited by the Municipal Arts Society to create a vision for the future of the public areas around the Grand Central Terminal and in the surrounding East Midtown district. WXY 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.