The Truth About: Grand Central Terminal

[jmad1952]

Besides the Post Office the subway stop is Grand Central Station. Most of the soot on the ceiling is from the diesel and old steam locomotives. Very interesting. Thanks.

[janiskukral]

Yesterday morning I was still there... Now I'm back in Germany -.-

[music19love]

wow thats alot about Grand Central...wow just....wow

[Romerjon17]

At Australia, Victoria. Flinder Street station opened in1910

[booster330]

The Fisher King

[warszawianka]

All that talk about GCT and you didn't mention the illuminated constellations on the ceiling.

[qsxxsq2]

seems like Crytek is doing a pretty accurate representation of GCS in crysis 2, now if only someone uploaded it to youtube by now though...

[mike1892]

Grand Central Station just got PWNED!

[Rickyrab]

Um, busiest? I thought that honor went to crosstown rival Penn Station, although GCT is probably the biggest.

[intercityrailpal]

I suguest you look up the website for Buffalo Central Terminal You'll be shocked!

[warszawianka]

@intercityrailpal Also look up Detroit's Michigan Central Station. It was designed by the same architects that did Pennsylvania Station in NYC, and it has been allowed to turn into an utter ruin. At least there is a minimal effort in Buffalo to keep Central Terminal from falling apart, and they hold events there every so often. Detroit's station is nothing but a ghost now. Would be nice if Amtrak would abandon its butt-ugly Depew station and restore service to Central, which isn't far away.

[ScarredSinner93]

oh crap wait.....mole people????? sience fiction

[Hackiesacker007]

I go through Grand Central every other week, and I've never paid attention that clock lol...

[snowsorceress]

Love that they saved this station after the crime of the other being lost. It's so pretty to just sit there and watch people. I'll have to visit again and try the whispering wall :D

[intercityrailpal]

@snowsorceress I'm sorry but, there were 5 stations in the NY area. GCT,PENN,HOBOKEN,Exchange Place,(Jersey City) CNJ terminal which is Liberty park. (a park with no trains with $6 gas coming!) and the other NYCRR station Weehawken. Across from 42nd street. These stations were owned by private companys their taxes and ticket taxes were used to build airports and highways. Which depend on cheap oil which is now GONE!

[snowsorceress]

@intercityrailpal And? The powers that be like destroying beautiful buildings, I know. At least there's GCT left. I've been to the Liberty Park station, sad it doesn't operate anymore :T

[warszawianka]

@snowsorceress GCT almost got the wrecking ball too because Penn Central was desparate for cash. Fortunately the city leaders woke up and instituted the Landmarks Preservation Committee to stop an atrocity like Penn Station from ever happening again. As it is, Penn Central sold the air rights over the terminal to Pan Am to build what is now the Met Life building.

[verjemAhajadba]

one more thing id add.

i farted twice while watching the vid.

has NE1 farted on the whispering wall? must be cool XD

[yooitsbrian]

more than half this info is on wikipedia...but i must try the whispering wall sometime lol

[wweecwha]

botring

[ffairlane57]

Yes, I was kind of botred myself.

[FacialsRus]

I'm botred too :P

[Alexe84]

yes, I might say I am botred too :P...

[MichaelHurley41]

As nice as this station is, there was one bigger and better destroyed by shitheads in 1962. It was the original Pennsylvania Station and it was truly magnificent. The city should rebuild that.

[ffairlane57]

I thought the location of the current post office was going to be the new station.

[saginawdavis]

That's a proposal for Penn, not Grand Central.

[decline2state]

Wasn't the upper part of the original Penn Station demolished to make room for the present incarnation of Madison Square Garden? If the present MSG is replaced, would they rebuild the upper part of Penn Station?

[warszawianka]

@decline2state Yes. The idea is to relocate Penn Station across the street to what is now the Farley Post Office, built at the same time as, and by the same architects, as Penn Station. That project is turning into a squabble between Amtrak and NJT. As it is now, NJT is building a third tunnel under the Hudson and plans to run its trains into the "new" Penn Station as a stub-end terminal. Amtrak has no idea what it's going to do, as usual. And no one has any idea how to pay for the project.

[indyfan22k]

@warszawianka the NJ Governor Killed that Project and Congress hates Amtrak.

[KoolKurly]

hehe this is interesting

[gmon40]

I was born in NY and didnt know half the stuff except the whispering wall we used to play jokes on people like this is god talking your train just left ya

[spouterinn5]

I like the music. . .and I really love a clip that manages to be fun and interesting at the same time! I'll be watching for these!

[nunikili]

i like your show but the music is really gay especially the introduction for first impressions

my 0.2

[laurenlollie]

Dont you mean your 0.02?