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Overview: * Includes temporary accounts of Grand Central’s history and construction *Includes a bibliography for further reading
* Includes a table of contents “In Grand Central you cannot shilly shally or dilly dally. Everyone rushes and dashes and zips and zaps and whizzes like crazy and oh what a dizzy and delightful place.” – Maira Kalman, Next Stop Grand Central Of all the great cities in the world, few personify their country like New York City.
As America’s largest city and best known immigration gateway into the country, the Big Apple represents the beauty, diversity and sheer strength of the United States, a global financial center that has enticed people chasing the “American Dream” for centuries. Given that background, it’s fitting that the city’s most iconic railroad station, Grand Central Terminal, is the largest in the world, sprawling across nearly 50 acres with over 40 platforms and 65 lines. Moreover, in addition to handling hordes of bustling commuters, it’s now a classic tourist spot that attracts tens of millions of visitors annually.
As author Tom Wolfewould so eloquently put it, “Every big city had a railroad station with grand — to the point of glorious — classical architecture — dazzled and intimidated, the great architects of Greece and Rome would have averted their eyes — featuring every sort of dome, soaring ceiling, king-size column, royal cornice, lordly echo — thanks to the immense volume of the spaces — and the miles of marble, marble, marble — but the grandest, most glorious of all, by far, was Grand Central Station.
* Includes lots of pictures.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Railways > New York
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