Grand Central Station
Saturday, 29 March 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika General , New York City
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Built in
Beaux-Arts style , Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a railroad terminal at
42nd Street and
Park Avenue in
Midtown Manhattan in
New York City . Built by and named for the
New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms with 44 serving 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres (19 ha).
Besides platforms, Grand Central has restaurants, such as the Oyster Bar and various fast food outlets surrounding the Dining Concourse on the level below the Main Concourse, as well as delis, bakeries, newsstands, a gourmet and fresh food market, an annex of the New York Transit Museum , and more than forty retail stores. Grand Central generally contains only private outlets and small franchises. There are chain outlets in the complex: Starbucks coffee shop, a Rite Aid pharmacy and an Apple Store which opened to the public on December 9, 2011. Other chain stores anticipated to open in the future include a Shake Shack.
Grand Central Terminal clock © 2004 Metropolitan Transportation Authority
It has been described as “the world’s loveliest station”. According to the travel magazine
Travel + Leisure in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is “the world’s number six most visited tourist attraction”, bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.
The terminal serves commuters traveling on the
Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. Until 1991 the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby
Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the
Empire Connection .
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Grand Central Terminal , Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2018:
The Preservation Battle of Grand Central and
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