What is the bridge outside Grand Central station?

The Park Avenue Viaduct, also known as the Pershing Square Viaduct, is a roadway in Manhattan in New York City. It carries vehicular traffic on Park Avenue from 40th to 46th Streets around Grand Central Terminal and the MetLife Building, then through the Helmsley Building.



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VIPs who want to avoid the public gaze have used a top-secret track, known as Track 61, to get around. It connects to an elevator that goes directly into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. One such VIP, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is believed to have used it to hide his polio from the public.

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One of Grand Central's main attractions, the four-faced opal clock in the Main Concourse, is a meeting place for visitors and locals alike. You know you're a New Yorker when you've told a friend to “meet me at the clock”!

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In 1871, the magnate Cornelius Commodore Vanderbilt created Grand Central Depot for the New York Central & Hudson River, New York and Harlem Railroad, and New Haven railroads. Due to rapid growth, the depot was reconstructed and renamed Grand Central Station by 1900.

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Grand Central Terminal goes by many names, including Grand Central, the Terminal, and GCT. Just don't call us “Grand Central Station”—that refers to the US Post Office down the street or the subway station below.

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Information Booth Clock “Meet me at the clock!” This clock, like all those in the terminal, is accurate to within 1 second every 20 billion years, calibrated to the atomic clock in the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. The famed opal glass clock perched atop the Info Booth is valued at $20 million or more.

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GCT is the largest train station in the world in terms of area occupied and number of platforms. The terminal is spread over 49 acres and has 44 platforms.

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