Grand Central Terminal
Grand
Central Terminal (GCT) is a suburbanite, quick travel (and
previous intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown
Manhattan in New York City, United States. Worked by and named for the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad in the prime of American long-remove traveler
rail travel, it covers 48 sections of land (19 ha) and has 44 stages, more than
some other railroad station on the planet. Its stages, all subterranean, serve
41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower; however the aggregate number
of tracks along stages and in rail yards surpasses 100.
The terminal serves suburbanites going on the Metro-North
Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess areas in New York State, and
Fairfield and New Haven districts in Connecticut. Until 1991, the terminal
served Amtrak, which moved to adjacent Pennsylvania endless supply of the
Empire Connection. The East Side Access venture is in progress to convey Long
Island Rail Road administration to the terminal.
Great Central Terminal has complex outlines both on its
inside and outside. Also, it contains an incomprehensible inside fundamental
concourse. The terminal is one of the worlds most gone by vacation
destinations, with 21.9 million guests in 2013.
Dissimilar to other Metro-North stations, Grand Central
Terminal is not claimed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but
rather by a privately owned business known as Midtown TDR Ventures.
In Popular Culture
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| Grand Central Terminal |
Numerous film and TV creations have included scenes shot at
Grand Central Terminal. Kyle McCarthy, who handles generation at the terminal
for MTA Metro-North Railroad, said, "Great Central is one of the
quintessential New York places. Whether movie producers require a building up
shot of touching base in New York or transportation scenes, the restored
landmark building is visually appealing and authentic."
Films featuring Grand Central include:
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Amateur
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Arthur
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The Avengers
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The Bone Collector
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Broad City
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
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Carlito’s Way
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Cloverfield
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Conspiracy Theory
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The Cotton Club
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Duplicity
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Falling in Love
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The Fisher King
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The Following
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The Freshman
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Friends with Benefits
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Gossip Girl
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Hackers
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The House on Carroll Street
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Hugo
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I Am Legend
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K-PAX
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Little Nicky
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Loser
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Madagascar
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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Men In Black
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
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Midnight Run
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North By Northwest
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One Fine Day
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The Out-of-Towners
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The Perfect Score
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The Prince of Tides
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Revolutionary Road
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Superman: The Movie
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Step Up 3
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The Taking of Pelham 123
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Unbreakable
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Winter's Tale
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The range now
involved by the Vanderbilt Tennis Club was at one time a CBS TV studio that
created different live and recorded shows, for example, The CBS Evening News
and See It Now, and live dramatizations, for example, Mama. The initial four
scenes of What's My Line additionally started from Grand Central before the
show moved to different Manhattan theaters that could oblige studio gatherings
of people. In 1964, CBS moved TV operations to the CBS Broadcast Center.
Different appearances in TV include:
• The legitimate
thriller TV arrangement Damages, which includes The Glory of Commerce
sculptural gathering in the title grouping.
• The thriller TV
arrangement Quantico, which includes the terminal being pulverized in a
terrorist assault on the morning of the Democratic National Convention.
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