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GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, at Forty-second Street and Park Avenue in New York City, stands as a magnificent Beaux Arts monument to America's railroad age. At the heart of the terminal, the Grand Concourse — New York City's secular cathedral — serves as the crossroads for

midtown Manhattan. The terminal and two-story underground train yard, stretching from Forty-second to Fifty-sixth Streets between Madison and Lexington Avenues, replaced the first Grand Central constructed in 1871 by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and his New York Central and Harlem Railroads.

In 1901, William J. Wilgus, the New York Central's chief engineer, proposed a multifaceted ...

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