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  2. Grand Central Terminal - Wikipedia

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    The distinctive architecture and interior design of Grand Central Terminal's station house have earned it several landmark designations, including as a National Historic Landmark. Its Beaux-Arts design incorporates numerous works of art. Grand Central Terminal is one of the world's ten most-visited tourist attractions, [5] with 21.6 million ...

  3. History of Grand Central Terminal - Wikipedia

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    Grand Central Depot. By 1869, Vanderbilt had commissioned John B. Snook to design his new station, dubbed Grand Central Depot, on the site of the 42nd Street depot. [23] [24] [25] The site was far outside the limits of the developed city at the time, and even Vanderbilt's backers warned against building the terminal in such an undeveloped area. [26]

  4. Grand Central Madison - Wikipedia

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    The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal, which serves the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Metro-North Railroad. [7] Grand Central Madison was built to reduce travel times to and from Manhattan's East Side and to ease congestion at Penn Station, the West Side station where all Manhattan-bound LIRR trains had terminated ...

  5. Timeline of Grand Central Terminal - Wikipedia

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    Grand Central Terminal is a major commuter rail terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, serving the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines. It is the most recent of three functionally similar buildings on the same site. [ 1 ]

  6. East Side Access - Wikipedia

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    The contract was for the construction of four railroad platforms and eight tracks for the new Grand Central Terminal. [64] The first tracks inside the 63rd Street Tunnel were laid in September 2017. [65] The pre-cast platforms inside Grand Central Terminal were completed in May 2018, followed by the completion of the tracks in August 2018.

  7. Grand Central Terminal reopens but access restricted due to ...

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    Grand Central Terminal is currently and temporarily shut down due to protesters calling for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Grand Central Terminal reopens but access restricted due to protesters

  8. Main Concourse - Wikipedia

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    Its vastness was meant to evoke the terminal's "grand" status. [9] The Main Concourse was deliberately placed at the same level as the mezzanine of the New York City Subway's Grand Central–42nd Street station; at the time of the terminal's construction, 80 percent of passengers transferred to and from the subway. The remainder of Grand ...

  9. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision on compensation for regulatory takings. [1] Penn Central sued New York City after the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission denied its bid to build a large office building on top of Grand Central Terminal.