Grand Central Terminal Map

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This map shows restrooms, information centers, escalators, tracks, dining, markets, and shops services in Grand Central Terminal (New York City).

About Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines. With 44 platforms serving 67 tracks, it has more platforms than any other railroad station in the world. The terminal opened on February 2, 1913, replacing the earlier Grand Central Depot (1871) and Grand Central Station (1900).

The New York Central Railroad built the terminal after a deadly 1902 collision in the smoke-filled Park Avenue Tunnel led the state to ban steam locomotives in Manhattan. The electrification plan, developed by engineer William J. Wilgus, placed tracks on two underground levels and allowed the area above them to be developed. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by the architectural firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore.

The Main Concourse is known for its vaulted ceiling painted with constellations and for the four-faced clock above the central information booth. Other features include the Grand Central Oyster Bar, which opened with the terminal in 1913, and the nearby "Whispering Gallery".

In the 1960s and 1970s, plans to build an office tower above the terminal led to a preservation campaign supported by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City (1978), the United States Supreme Court upheld the city's landmark preservation law. The terminal was restored in the 1990s. In 2023, the Long Island Rail Road began serving Grand Central Madison, a new station beneath the terminal.