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Grand Central Station
It is the busiest and grandest terminal in the world. On an average day 700,000 people, more than the entire population of North Dakota, pass in an out of Grand Central. There are 125,000 commuters and some 575,000 people who come every day just to eat, shop or site-see
It is the deepest terminal at 110 feet. The basement is nine stories below the lowest floor that a commuter will ever see.
Grand Central terminal has 33 miles of track and 44 platforms, which is more than any other in the world. 660 trains arrive or depart every day
The cost to renovate this baby was more than $250 million and took 2 years.
There are 95 retail businesses in the terminal.
5 tons of newspapers are recycled every day
It encompasses 49 acres and you could spend years before you discovered all of its secrets. Its whispering Gallery, its Vanderbilt family emblems, its tennis courts, its hidden railway cars or its private ground floor apartment which is now been transformed into a retro cocktail lounge.
In Grand Central, 19,000 bits and pieces are turned into the lost and found every year. 60% of it is eventually reunited with their owners. The most common misplaced item is the coat. There are cell phones, I-pods, umbrellas, books, diamond rings, bicycles, false teeth and eyes, hairpieces and even a prosthetic ear. Once, an urn of human ashes was deliberately left by a woman whose dead husband disguised his extramarital affairs by saying he kept falling asleep on the train.
The information booth is one of the best-known icons and is the most common meeting place in the terminal. As many as a thousand people an hour come to the booth to ask for information.
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