Grand Central Terminal is a railway station in Midtown Manhattan, New York, built by the New York Central Railroad and designed in the Beaux-Arts style by the firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore. It replaced an older station and was an engineering achievement, with electric trains and separate levels, which allowed the tracks to be covered and the land above sold for development. Its main concourse has a ceiling painted with the constellations. In the 1960s and 1970s the terminal was threatened with demolition, but a campaign supported by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis saved it, and a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upheld its landmark status. It is now a major commuter hub and a tourist attraction.
Before and after
- 1913The Little Mermaid
- 1913Founding of Parma Calcio 1913
- 1913Ford introduces the moving assembly line
- 9 January 1913Birth of Richard Nixon
- 2 February 1913Construction of Grand Central Terminal
- 4 February 1913Birth of Rosa Parks
- 12 March 1913Founding of Canberra
- 30 May 1913Treaty of London
- from 29 June 1913 to 10 August 1913Second Balkan War
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The era
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