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Grand
Central Terminal EVENTS: Check
New Yorkled's Grand Central Events Page for what's happening
here in the coming days, weeks and more!
Just Click here!
Note that although some folks will
refer to it as Grand Central Station, it is really Grand Central
Terminal.
View this little musical
film New Yorkled had taken at the Inside Out Festival at this
historic locale: John
Lennon's "IMAGINE" rendition at Grand Central Terminal
- (Music VIDEO)
Located between 42nd & 45th St, within Vanderbilt & Lexington
Ave. is Grand Central Terminal. NYC's Great Transportation hub.
Here is where the Metro North Trains and many others depart. The
structure itself, both within and outside is quite something to
gawk at.
I can remember 15 years ago when vagrants literally lived and slept
in the phonebooths. 'And that was before the 1980's recession! It
was a veritable mess. After several years of reconstruction and
renovation, it's back! Loud and clear!
If one were to have left in 1990 and come back perhaps in 1999,
one would have thought him/herself in the Twilight Zone...'that
is, if one were in Grand Central.
It's a mecca of retail business, with eateries in the lower level,
and virtually a spit-shine look and feel, this transportation hub
of NYC is something else. Tourists might take it for granted, but
any native New Yorker will tell you, that it's come a fairly long
distance from what it once was!
New York Transit Museum
Located adjacent to the Station Masters' Office is this Museum with
ongoing exhibitions. Entrance is Free and they've got a shop available
for you to purchase transit related goods and gifts.
Individual Tours
Every Wednesday at 12:30 pm, there is a free tour catering to the
individual run by the Municipal Arts Society. Meet at the information
booth on the Grand Concourse. For more information on this tour
call (212) 935-3960
Every Friday at 12:30pm, there is a free tour catering to the individual
which is run by the Grand Central Partnership. Meet on 42nd
Street in front of the Phillip Morris/ Whitney Museum across
the street from Grand Central. For more information on this
tour call (212) 697-1245
Groups tours can also be arranged by calling (212) 340-3404
Check New Yorkled's Grand Central
Event Page for what's happening there
You can also visit
their site.
Getting there by Subway: S, 4, 5,
6, 7 take you there directly; B, D, F, Q leave you at a somewhat
comfortable distance |
