New York 4k, Manhattan - Grand Central Terminal - Walking tour

Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It also contains a connection to the New York City Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station.
The distinctive architecture and interior design of Grand Central Terminal's station house have earned it several landmark designations, including as a National Historic Landmark. Grand Central Terminal was built by and named for the New York Central Railroad. Opened in 1913, the terminal was built on the site of two similarly-named predecessor stations, the first of which dates to 1871.
Grand Central covers 48 acres (19 ha) and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world. Its platforms, all below ground, serve 30 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower. In total, there are 67 tracks, including a rail yard and sidings; of these, 43 tracks are in use for passenger service, while the remaining two dozen are used to store trains.
The Main Concourse, originally known as the Express Concourse, is located on the upper platform level of Grand Central, in the geographical center of the station building. Usually filled with bustling crowds and often used as a meeting place. The Main Concourse contains an elliptical barrel-vaulted ceiling. Original plans called for the ceiling to contain a skylight, but this was not practical because such a large skylight could not be built at the time. Instead, the ceiling contains an elaborately decorated mural of constellations. Many parts of the terminal are adorned with sculpted oak leaves and acorns, nuts of the oak tree. Among these decorations is a brass acorn finial atop the four-sided clock in the center of the Main Concourse. Suspended from other portions of the ceiling are ten globe-shaped chandeliers in the Beaux-Arts style, each of which weighs 800 pounds (360 kg) and contains 110 bulbs.
The concourse is lit by these chandeliers and by large windows in its east and west walls. Each wall has three round-arched windows, about 60 feet (18 m) high,identical in size and shape to the three on the terminal's south facade. Catwalks, used mostly for maintenance, run across the east and west windows. Their floors are made of semi-transparent rock crystal, cut two inches thick.
The ticket booths are located in the Main Concourse, although many have been closed or repurposed since the introduction of ticket vending machines. The concourse's large American flag was installed there a few days after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The Main Concourse is surrounded on most of its sides by balconies. The fountains still operate and are cleaned daily, though they are rarely used.
The 18-sided main information booth — originally the "information bureau" — is in the center of the concourse. Its attendants provide train schedules and other information to the public.
The booth is topped by a four-faced brass clock. The clock was designed by Henry Edward Bedford, cast in Waterbury, and designed by the Self Winding Clock Company and built by the Seth Thomas Clock Company, along with several other clocks in the terminal. Each 24-inch (61 cm) faceis made from opalescent glass. However, urban legend says the faces are actually opal, valued by Sotheby's or Christie's between $10 million and $20 million.
The terminal's primary departure board is located on the south side of the concourse, installed directly atop the two sets of ticket windows. Colloquially known as the "Big Board", it shows the track and status of arriving and departing trains.
There have been five departure boards used over the terminal's history: the 1913–1967 chalkboard, the 1967–1985 Solari board, the 1985–1996 Omega board, the 1996–2019 LCD board, and the 2019 fully digital display.
The size of the Main Concourse has made it an ideal advertising space. During World War II, a large mural with images of the United States military hung in the concourse, and from the 1950s to 1989, the Kodak Colorama exhibit was a prominent fixture.
Grand Central Terminal was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore, which mainly made cosmetic alterations to the exterior and interior. Various elements inside the terminal were designed by French architects and artists Jules-Félix Coutan, Sylvain Salières, and Paul César Helleu.

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