The Secrets of Grand Central Terminal in New York City | The New York Times

[@DenverRailFan]

One of the most beautiful stations in the world!

[@tylerlcrawford]

"You have your tickets? ... Alright. Hurry up" LMAO @ 2:28

[@postxtito]

its a masterpiece of engineering, and hats off to those professionals that did such a wonderful job, a testament to how well the system is still working today.

[@georgschmidt2091]

In 1958 on my way back from Germany while in the army i arrived at Grand Central Station NY and was amazed how big and beautiful it was. I had been in the Frankfurt railroad Station in Germany with it's many train tracks coming in and trains. I was impressed with it. But nothing compared to the New York Central Grand Station in size and beauty at the time to small town country boy from the Midwest.

[@annbush1826]

If you ever check back, you will be intersted to learn that in 2005 I met the artist who had “cleaned the ceiling” at Grand Central. She was a child athlete trained for the Moscow Circus. Tiny, less than 5’, and after years of a semi-bondage in the Circus, she defected and made her way to New York city. Here her new career began. She worked for a fellow immigrant doing painting restoration and was hired to clean the blackened ceiling of Grand Central. She worked on a scaffold on her back, moistening a small square at a time with gentle soap and then wiping it. There is one small square she left. Her first name was Marina and I have forgotten her last name, but I met her at her art gallery in Garrison, New York when she cleaned and restored a painting for me which was damaged in Katrina.

[@franknhonest]

Having worked on GCT, I've had the privilege of going into the steam tunnels under the tracks, walking on the roof and walking through the loft above the starry ceiling. However there are still many things I don't know about the place!

[@nytom4info]

franknhonest the hole in the ceiling for the antenna of the space capsule... ;)

[@srinathk177]

I visited Grand Central N.Y.35 years back and it is aptly named. Nobody in life is perfect and hence some delays / early arrivals are natural. I read few days back that a Train driver in Tokyo was sacked because he departed 10 Seconds earlier. Pathetic culture. 2+2 =4 but it can also be 3.999 to 4.001. I am sure most of the Trains in Japan run like this. Even the tracks on which the train Runs have some Flexibility to account for seasonal variations. Japanese should take note of it.

[@jason854656]

@@srinathk177 right Srinath. And where did you hear this from? Guarantee you have no answer to it and it's gonna be something generic where you can't directly answer. Japanese engineering is much much more efficient

[@1011176a]

Unfortunely Penn station could not last as long as Grand Central

[@tommytruth7595]

+Brandon Hu But the morons ripping down Penn Station helped mobilize the effort to save GCT.

[@RattlerX5150]

If I had a time machine, my first stop would be Old penn station ,just after its opening

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

I have passed by Grand Central Station many times while on vacation in New York. I love the station a lot! It is a work of art!

[@PNMAWVR777RailfanInfo]

1:09: Marty: Dagnabbit I've missed the express, looks like I have to take Stafford Local.

[@Soumisha2004]

I came here after reading the story of The Third Level of Cbse English book it is so informative

[@sujalchaudhari3012]

And fun fact.. name of person in the video was Sam

[@hamid_khan.0691]

Aap latter ka address bhi dal kar dekho Google map me vo bhi aa jayega mere me dikha raha hai

[@drinny26]

I walk through grand central station every day for work. It's so beautiful and big. I love it.

[@kobyschechter8163]

And now starting January 25, 2023 we Long Islanders will get a one seat ride into Grand Central!! I want to be on that first train. The celebration is gonna be amazing.

[@Mathin3D]

NYC is like a habit - it may be bad for you, but you just want more...

[@pigeons882]

The Third Level do exists.

[@Nadbit]

I was there. It was my last day in NYC. Missing it so much

[@sarlukowski]

I can smell this video.

[@ducklando_playz7163]

XD meh too

[@trailwayt9H337]

I was search for world ' s biggest railway station. I see that. Excellent.

[@NavneetShrivastava]

OK just clarify .. does it have three levels?..bc Jack Finney is confusing in my literature textbook

[@divpreetkaur8381]

Hello! I'm here from my literature book too😂

[@NavneetShrivastava]

@@divpreetkaur8381 haha. Hey! Nice to meet you..how's life?

[@divpreetkaur8381]

@@NavneetShrivastava life's kinda going on. COVID sucks!! How about u ?

[@NavneetShrivastava]

@@divpreetkaur8381 same here. Feeling alone. Mental health has taken a toll over me

[@divpreetkaur8381]

@@NavneetShrivastava yeah same here

[@alstoer1]

He didn't say busiest train 'station' he said busiest railroad 'terminal'. Shinjuku is not a Terminal, and neither is Penn Station. Its not called Grand Central Station it is called Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is the subway station that is 80 or so feet below the Terminal.

[@thomasvadeika2119]

I think they should move all Amtrak lines from Penn Station to Grand Central since GC is a much more appealing to long-distance travelers. The western tracks at the upper level of the station could easily be connected with the Northeast Corridor and across the Hudson.

[@recursor9469]

Supposedly the LIRR is getting access to Grand Central Terminal, as well as Metro North getting access to Penn Station. So Maybe they're going to add an Amtrak line through Grand Central as well? I also hear they're supposed to be revamping Penn Station. So we'll see how it goes.

[@romykumarmandal9491]

Who came after reading The third level Of class 12th english book

[@millichaudhary6077]

🙋

[@kanhaiyachoudhary4705]

Me tooo

[@jasminejohnston6393]

There’s a secret bunker underneath the station. Its exact location is kept a secret because it’s so important. You could be shot if you ended up on the wrong elevator. The bunker is where the power converters are for the third rails

[@KNGexp]

I've done the whispering columns before. You gotta try it at least once there!

[@ucheucheuche]

1:47 lol, in London some trains leave 30 seconds early. Grand Central got the psychology right.

[@xanseviera]

Lmao at the reverse drawing of the stars XD

[@cashbrooks533]

Business people of NY use Grand Central station as a place to hold a business meetings

[@pauloneufneufneuf]

London's Waterloo Station is a Terminal. There are no pass through tracks. It is purely a terminal. That runs 1,600 trains per day, terminating at London Waterloo, solely using the terminal tracks, because there are no tracks that are anything other than terminal tracks. Did I mention it's a terminal? The figure I've seen for Metro-North GCT is 700 trains per day (source: The Atlantic) (GCT could well have the most tracks of any terminal though. 67 is pretty impressive. And it IS an architectural gem)

[@normandofashione3767]

Great Video...How could people not like this? LOVE it

[@AIvey]

Just visit grand central station today love it......December 30,2019

[@davidkastin4240]

Love the brass handrails on the stairs going down to the train ❤

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

The term Grand Central can also be used as an adjective, as in “it’s like Grand Central around here.” Which means it is crowded here.

[@RaymondHng]

John OBrien Gardener You mean an adjective.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

RaymondHng - correct, thanks!

[@mookiecookie44]

That's not using it as an adjective...

[@lbwshorts6716]

Please read, The Third Level by Jack Finney

[@robb8773]

I miss so much hanging out in NYC, hope we get past COVID soon!

[@sammorrow758]

And this almost was torn down!

[@tommytruth7595]

I know. The morons did tear down the beautiful Penn Station.

[@annaisabekova6265]

Love New York

[@leveraged6694]

You didn’t mention the tennis court!

[@itsaterrancekindofthing...]

There's a tennis court there???

[@vaishnav1403]

Is there third level also in it ??

[@sebastianorozco1114]

I tried out the whisper gallery when I visited nyc it’s really fascinating

[@adamgale6239]

What is the name of the song at 0:33?

[@ScoobyDooIsDead]

Beautiful. Beaux-Art architecture at its finest.

[@tedharrison4522]

Busiest railway station in the world? Sorry, not even close. Busiest in North America? probably. But Shinjuku Station in Tokyo handles 1.2 Billion passengers annually ...

[@hindelalaoui395]

Who's here because of BTS performance

[@RS-io6vm]

ceasers palace of train stations.

[@w2385-i2s]

What happen to the graffiti?

[@BossChronicles]

Need to visit

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Was the whispering gallery intentional?

[@Whytravelthere]

Cool tips, thanks!

[@tanvideo11]

nice video thx

[@anujaubarhande6889]

And BTS performed here😭💜

[@sanjeshkumar6044]

"The Third Level" kidhar hai viru🔪... 🤪

[@millichaudhary6077]

😂

[@Thomas1980]

Very nice Station!

[@shayanchamas60]

Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest train station in the world! It is also much larger than Grand Central and is basically an underground city. So, some facts are not correct. Although Grand Central is still an awesome station!! I have been to both.

[@CreepyCoasters]

Shayan Chamas Well Grand Central may have more basement that it

[@marcianolansu]

Was thinking the same... would expect more accurate facts from The New York Times

[@guestuser1837]

@@marcianolansu shinjuku is a station, not a terminal. Trains go through shinjuku, and they terminate at GCT.

[@jdevilist]

Grand central station is what its called in my reality. Shifted dimension to some other reality. Mandela effect. 😕😕😕

[@SpongeXtermiat0r94]

It was always called terminal. Because it’s where trains terminate their lines.

[@KatWoodland]

I took an Amtrak in the 80s and went through GRAND CENTRAL STATION, where I changed trains. The architecture is stunning. I

[@jsfnnyc]

What an adventure

[@zacharyw9433]

I’m a 20 minute express train ride right into Grand Central. I’m a New Yorker.

[@ralphstark9961]

I am convinced that whispering gallery was responsible for dozens cases of COVID.

[@dream.machine]

Grand Central actually looks like your thumbnail now (During the Quarantine 2020)

[@omarglobal]

Love it.

[@tklogan111809]

Just a shadow of the Old Penn Station.

[@flushingrailfanner6391]

Didn't Grand Central come first?

[@tklogan111809]

It's still just a shadow.

[@Waitakeredame]

Great video for me as I have a friend working there but no, Mrs Sam Roberts, everybody does NOT know about the clock!

[@TheNeedlefactory]

Yes, Grand Central will be 100 years old on February 2.

[@vishalgupta7522]

The third level

[@Aditya-vu4ey]

But there isn't any as the video suggests 😂

[@mariopinot9884]

Nice

[@chobotaayush]

Definitely not the one with the most passengers. The 2nd building of the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai alone handles over 3 million passengers a day (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhatrapati_Shivaji_Terminus_railway_station#Second_building)

[@kiryukazama_]

Now it's not secret again

[@awesomecheetah0968]

We’ve been ratted up boys 🐧🐧🐧🐧

[@PNMAWVR777RailfanInfo]

*Police Officers, Firefighters, Drummer, and Nana Surrounded the animals in Grand Central Station*

[@rdrgamerz9749]

Is that really a time loop here .....

[@Omnicient.]

The documentary gives the dimensions of a clock outside!! but nothing regarding the interior; here they are: 275 feet long - 121 wide - 124 high.

[@somethingsinlife5600]

They don't call it grand for nothing!

[@ElectricityTaster]

That's what she said.

[@chelseawhite7117]

I feel like those whispering corners must be off-limits during Covid times

[@dddnnn555]

What's the song?

[@annaisabekova6265]

Wow never knew

[@nytom4info]

Been there did all that. What about the hole in the ceiling for the antenna... The rest area under the grand concourse for the engineers...the cat walk above the grand concourse.. I worked GCT.. I had keys to ever door in the terminal... I worked track 100..was there when the space shuttle exploded... flees.. rats and dead bums in the tunnels..

[@JonnyBoots2020]

I Work In Grand Central, And I Hate These People That Stop And Look Up. I Knew A Guy That Would Yell At Them And Bump Em With His Cage

[@blackrebelradio9879]

We need 6 , four create. Yes Sir.

[@eoinpkav152]

Funny how it’s the busiest Terminal in the US but is only serviced by one railroad, or 2 (rarely)

[@michaelmorales1475]

Soon the LIRR.

[@baselinejumpers8597]

Hey I was at the whispering thing a month ago

[@vishnumehta2101]

where is the third level?

[@kevinhoward9593]

i dont get it. only half a million commuters use the station a day now. how come in the 50-60s when inter-city trains still were running, didnt it handle 1.5 million a day or so and actually make money.

[@SubhamChatterjee]

How come India and China misses out on top 50 busiest stations in the world,when Japan doesn't even has 10% of Indian/Chinese population ?

[@jayfawn8478]

I'm here because of tom and jerry. trying to see if the portrayed is accurate

[@matkanu3908]

Quel est le secret 🤔

[@nytom4info]

Track 100... carpentry shop... ;)

[@jonathanvogt2]

Busiest terminal in the world? Rubbish. Take a look at Shinjuku.

[@Mathin3D]

What is wrong with you?

[@jonathanvogt2]

I require accuracy. You?

[@red5t653]

Jonathan Vogt Uh... Shinjuku isn’t a terminal. It’s got through traffic, which disqualifies it as being one.

[@Mathin3D]

@Jonathan Well, then I have news for you, Mr "accuracy" - your claim is completely inaccurate. Now, fug off.

[@Ben-dh1kt]

The busiest station in the world? Give me sources!!!

[@adroso]

I know right, its a beautiful station but this has nothing on Shinjuku Station in terms of people.

[@Ben-dh1kt]

And I would like to compare it with Chatelet les Halles in Paris which is the busiest station in Europe!

[@ianbaram3043]

I think that they were being technical, it could be the busiest terminal. There are no through trains through grand central making it a terminal instead of a station.

[@sammorrow758]

Maybe if you weren't so defensive, you would notice that he said terminal and not station. Two very different things!

[@BILLMCCORMACK69]

would like us to build a marvel like grand central today

[@GregWalkerZzZ]

I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about.

[@johnbaca6933]

Casey Neistat made me look this up

[@junezhang2128]

Where's the famous secret of radioactivity?

[@mohdzaid9120]

Third level ????

[@williamtandian1019]

yes yes,i hear dragon ball song at begining

[@greenqueenart]

Tartarian.

[@vincentnguyen3767]

WOW THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iceprincess418]

DRAGON BALL

[@kighuyy2682]

1st comment. Nice video

[@OurCognitiveSurplus]

1:10 - Grand Central Station isn't even close to being the biggest or busiest train station in the world. What nonsense. It has a lot of terminals, but doesn't have anything like the passenger capacity of Japanese stations or the physical space of Chinese stations. America is #1, said nobody outside of America ever.

[@blitzkrieg634]

OurCognitiveSurplus china is the most populated country on planet earth, leave them out. In Japan everybody takes the train, no planes, grand central would be busier than both of them if JFK didn't exist

[@mtadams2009]

A little salty

[@Aditya-vu4ey]

India is here!😊

[@ruixinyan9223]

the station looks good！ but train is so fking old！ need to change

[@jamesxinger5814]

Hack the planet

[@yTurnbullTrain]

Grand Central is NO where near the busiest train station in the world Because the Shinjuku Station in japan is the busiest in the world! Infact Grand Central is not even on the list of busiest train stations in america!!! Penn Station (a couple of blocks away from Grand Central) is the Busiest only in america!!!

[@AnthonyBrusca]

Terminal, not station

[@sagarsawant3723]

Tralier

[@GregWalkerZzZ]

Yet I doubt anyone gives a crap about a goddamn train station, however spacious or busy, East of New York City or West of Los Angeles to see a video about it on youtube.