Top 11 Things You Might Not Know About Grand Central Terminal
Jon "DRJ" Najarian | ask-drj@optionmonster.com
- Did you know Grand Central Terminal (GCT) opened its doors at midnight on February 2, 1913?
- Did you know the present GCT was the third station built at 42nd St?
- Did you know the construction cost would be $2 billion in inflation adjusted dollars?
- Did you know Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, spearheaded an initiative to save GCT from demolition in the 70’s?
- Did you know the Vanderbilt family built and owned the station for a time, as part of their New York and Harlem Railroad?
- Did you know Andy Warhol held an underground party on the Waldorf platform in 1965?
- Did you know the Oyster Bar (a Michael Murphy & Doctor J favorite) has been a Grand Central staple since the terminal’s opening?
- Did you know GCT's Park Avenue Tunnel extends 55 blocks underground, from 42nd St to 97th St?
- Did you know that so many of the conductors were Irish immigrants that the IRT was colloquially called the “Irish Rapid Transit?”
- Did you know that Gene Hackman's (Lex Luther's) lair was located under the terminal in 1978's Superman?
- Did you know 93% of GCT commuters are college graduates?
