Stand in the Main Concourse and look up: a blue-green vault painted with constellations arches overhead, while commuters stream across the terrazzo floor around the brass clock at the centre.

The terminal

Grand Central Terminal stands at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Opened in 1913 on the site of two earlier stations, it is the southern terminus of Metro-North's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, and connects to the Long Island Rail Road via Grand Central Madison and to the subway. It is the third-busiest train station in North America, and a National Historic Landmark.

Inside

At the centre of the Main Concourse, an information booth is topped by a four-sided brass clock, one of Grand Central's best-known icons. Ramps lead down to the Oyster Bar and the Dining Concourse; under the arches near the Oyster Bar is a whispering gallery, where a person in one corner can hear someone speaking softly in the opposite corner. With 21.6 million visitors in 2018, not counting passengers, it is one of the most visited attractions in the world.

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  Main Concourse Constellation ceiling.
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  Four-sided clock On the information booth.
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  Whispering gallery Near the Oyster Bar.
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  Dining Concourse Food hall below.