Where is the secret staircase in Grand Central Terminal?
The brass center inside of the booth features a door, which leads to a spiral staircase used by employees to get from the lower level to the main floor, and vice versa.
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In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. In order to reassure the American public, the Main Concourse became the location of a Redstone missile. It was so big that a hole had to be made in the ceiling to allow it to be comfortably housed.
Follow the signs (or take an elevator)But what if you are arriving on a Metro-North train? It might come in on the upper concourse level (tracks 11-42) or lower level (101-117).
The MTA's ownership of Grand Central Terminal will further give MTA Long Island Rail Road clear control of the East Side Access terminal being built beneath Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central Station refers to the subway station inside GCT. The main subway lines that connect here are the 4, 5, and 6 trains (green line), the 7 train (purple line), and the S train (gray line shuttle).
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.
Commuters rave about Grand Central Madison, even if it's hard to find. Grand Central Madison is huge — more than 700,000 square feet. And it's deep — stretching about 150 feet below the street, which is 15 stories. Navigating the space takes time.
The building's construction started in 1903 and it was opened on February 2, 1913. The terminal continued to grow until after World War II, when train traffic started to decline. In the 1950s and 1970s, there were two separate proposals to demolish Grand Central, though both were unsuccessful.
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.