- A new terminal for the Long Island Rail Road in New York’s Grand Central Terminal opened Wednesday.
- The terminal’s walls are engraved with homages to New York from famous artists.
- A quote attributed to Georgia O’Keeffe misspells the painter’s last name as O’Keefe, Bloomberg reported.
The sweep of history has given rise to many artists with names that are difficult to spell — the painter Hieronymus Bosch, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the architect Le Corbusier, to name a few.
Now, the American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe might deserve a spot on that list, too.
In a new terminal in New York’s Grand Central Station that opened last Wednesday, called the Grand Central Madison station, O’Keeffe’s name is spelled with one “f” instead of two, Bloomberg reported.
O’Keeffe is one among other artists and writers like Toni Morrison and Lin-Manuel Miranda whose quoted homages to New York are engraved into the walls of the concourse, Bloomberg reported.
O’Keeffe, widely known for her vistas of the American Southwest, spent time in New York City in the 1920s and painted several cityscapes, according to the Art Institute of Chicago.
During that time, she said, “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” That’s the quote that made it into the Grand Central Madison station.
Bloomberg reported that the Grand Central Madison terminal is part of an $11.1 billion project called East Side Access that will bring passengers on the Long Island Railroad to Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal instead of Penn Station.
The terminal will save about 160,000 passengers as much as 40 minutes of commuting time, Bloomberg reported citing data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates New York City's subways, buses and commuter rail lines.
In a statement sent by email to Insider, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's communications director, Tim Minton, said, "We clearly F-ed this one up and it's being fixed."