Stephen Nessen, Reporter, WNYC News
Stephen Nessen reports for the WNYC Newsroom and can often be heard live on Morning Edition.
Watch | Tour the Secrets of Grand Central Terminal
Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Grand Central Station
(Charlie Herman/WNYC)
Each day, more than 700,000 people pass through Grand Central Terminal — one of the city's famous landmarks. WNYC took a behind-the-scenes tour of this historic terminal station.
Find out details about the iconic opal clock in the center of the terminal, take a look FDR secret train car and peek inside the control room of the train station where a train arrives every minute.
Comments [4]
Lee Carlson is correct. Grand Central is the end of the line, a terminus, the Terminal. A "station" is a stop along a route.
Many oldsters use the incorrect name because of "Grand Central Station," a CBS radio series for decades. The producers were forbidden from using "terminal" for legal reasons.
Really enjoyed this short! Would love to see more! Maybe a longer video next time.
WEll, hate to bust the bubble, but there's no "secret FDR Train Car". It's an old baggage car that Metro-North uses for storage.
Want to know more about the tracks under the Waldorf-Astoria? An excellent account can be found on Joe Brennan's "Abandoned Stations" webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/gct61.html
Grand Central Station is the name of a Post Office, not the huge railroad station in New York, which is Grand Central TERMINAL.
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