Train station
Grand Central Terminal
89 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017, USA
Beaux Arts rail terminal with a turquoise celestial ceiling and a landmark preservation history.
This guide to Grand Central Terminal opens with a 1978 Supreme Court decision, split six to three, that stood between the terminal and a fifty-story tower planned to rise through its roof. It traces the 1963 demolition of Pennsylvania Station that set off the fight, and the moment Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis appeared at the Oyster Bar to argue it wasn't too late to save this building too. You'll also hear about a quirk in the painted ceiling overhead that a commuter first noticed decades ago.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.