Grand Central Terminal NYC: History and other facts

Grand Central Terminal is among world's top railway stations. Here in this article you will find brief details about Grand Central Terminal including its history and some other facts.

Grand Central Terminal was built in year 1903 by Reed and St Warren and was built in Beaux-Arts architect style. It got NRHP Reference#: 75001206 83001726 and was added to NRHP on January 17. It is situated in New York City and is spreaded along 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Please note that, Grand Central Terminal is world's biggest train station by number of platforms. Along with platforms, it too have 67 tracks. All of them are divided in two levels, upper level and lower level. One interesting thing to note is that, this railway station have more than 100 tracks along platforms. After opening of Long Island Rail Road's new station in 2016, this station will have total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. Whole of the platform is spreaded across an area of 48 acres. Till 1991, this terminal was used by Amtrak but later in 1991 they moved their trains Pennsylvania Station. This station is officially know as "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, but till now lot of people have continued to call it as "Grand Central Station." It got its name as "Grand Central Station" from a post office which is situated very near to this terminal. According to Travel + Leisure magazine, Grand Central Terminal is world's number six most visited tourist attraction and about 21,600,000 visitors visits Grand Central Terminal annually.