Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, opened on February 2, 1913. Designed jointly by the firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore, it is built in the Beaux-Arts style and is the southern terminus for Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, connecting through Grand Central Madison to the Long Island Rail Road. The terminal has 44 platforms serving 67 tracks, one of the largest train stations in the world by platform count, and it ranks as the third-busiest train station in North America. Beyond its rail function, the building draws roughly 21.6 million visitors a year who come for its architecture and its numerous artworks rather than to catch a train.
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Building TypeRailway Terminal (commuter rail hub) 3 Location42nd Street and Park Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States 3 Completed Year Height (m)Height of the Main Concourse, the terminal's principal interior space and its defining vertical dimension in the source; the low, wide exterior structure has no separately reported overall building height. Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
History section
Opened in 1913, the terminal was built on the site of two similarly named predecessor stations, the first of which dated to 1871.
Main Concourse article, Layout and architecture section
The cavernous concourse measures 275 ft (84 m) long by 120 ft (37 m) wide by 125 ft (38 m) high; a total of about 35,000 square feet (3,300 m2).
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Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, opened on February 2, 1913. Designed jointly by the firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore, it is built in the Beaux-Arts style and is the southern terminus for Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, connecting through Grand Central Madison to the Long Island Rail Road. The terminal has 44 platforms serving 67 tracks, one of the largest train stations in the world by platform count, and it ranks as the third-busiest train station in North America. Beyond its rail function, the building draws roughly 21.6 million visitors a year who come for its architecture and its numerous artworks rather than to catch a train.
In Style: Beaux-Arts Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City
Uses Element: Granite, Wikipedia article
The facade and structure of the terminal building primarily use granite.
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