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Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area.





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Grand Central Terminal is located at 89 E 42nd Street (corner of Park Avenue), about two miles from New York Penn Station.

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The Penn Stations in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Baltimore are remnants of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's network, says Travis Harry, director of museum operations at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, a Smithsonian Affiliate.

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Not only is Grand Central Terminal one of the world's most beautiful train stations, it's also one of New York's most fascinating landmarks. Host to more than 750,000 people who pass through it daily, the station is a crossroads for locals, commuters, and tourists from all over the world.

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The distance between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal (Station) is 3196 feet.

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Customers can exit New York Penn Station onto 8th Avenue, cross 8th Avenue and enter Moynihan Train Hall at any entryway. Or, customers can walk between Moynihan Train Hall and New York Penn Station on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) concourse level through the Moynihan Lower Concourse.

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Grand Central retains its early 1900s glory, while Penn Station was demolished in 1964 and now exists in the cramped maze-like basement of Madison Square Garden. Grand Central is like a cathedral of railroads and Penn is a third rate mall squeezed into the available space.

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The Oculus was positioned as part of the World Trade Center masterplan by Daniel Libeskind and designed by Santiago Calatrava. The structure's white metal-clad steel ribs reach up and out in a monumental move symbolic of a hand releasing a dove.

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The original Pennsylvania Station was an ornate station building designed by McKim, Mead, and White and considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style. Completed in 1910, it enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time.

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Madison Square Garden is located right above Penn Station, steps from the Long Island Rail Road entrance between 31st and 33rd Streets on 7th Avenue.

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