Newyork Grand Central

Grand Central Terminal (GCT)—colloquially known as Grand Central Station, or shortened to easily Grand Central—is a commuter rail terminal station at forty second Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in ny town, us. engineered by and named for the ny Central Railroad within the heyday of yankee long-distance passenger trains, it's the most important train station within the world by variety of platforms: forty four, with sixty seven tracks along them. they're on 2 levels, each below ground, with forty one tracks on the higher level and twenty six on the lower, though the overall variety of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds a hundred. When the Long Island Rail Road's new station opens in 2016 (see East aspect Access), Grand Central can provide a complete of seventy five tracks and forty eight platforms. The terminal covers a neighborhood of forty eight acres (19 ha).

Although the terminal has been properly known as "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, many of us still seek advice from it as "Grand Central Station." "Grand Central Station" is that the name of the nearby post workplace, likewise because the name of a previous rail station on the positioning, and it's conjointly used to seek advice from a brand new York town subway station at a similar location.

According to the travel magazine Travel + Leisure in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is "the world's variety six most visited tourist attraction", bringing in approximately twenty one,600,000 guests annually