Yesterday I visited Grand Central Station- or I should say terminal, the famous station as changed its names many times throughout the last hundred years. Grand Central’s birth was from a tragedy and underwent many changes from presidents, to abandoned tracks to restaurants, to rebuilding this station is an American Icon.
The chief engineer was William J Wilgus and build two version of the terminal before the third and final station designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore had been the terminal’s final design. The station is over 170,000 square feet with new and improved retail space. There was slow a cluttered version in the 1970’s was amazing as well as the 1913 version.
The birth of Grand Central Station was considered a tragedy, as the soot and the smog was polluting the air quality. As the air quality was poor, so the train station moved completely underground, resulting into business in downtown Manhattan in 1902. Enough about how Grand Central began, what’s interesting is that it took part of the second World War II. In 1942 more than forty percent of the population was using Grand Central and Hitler planned to destroy it. During the war millions of service millions passed through Grand Central, so many that the government had opened a separate branch of the USO inside the station. So it would make sense for Hitler, one of the many Axis powers to destroy America from its roots. …show more content…
There was even a large elevator at the end of Waldorf’s hotel, big enough to contain FDR’S
The chief engineer was William J Wilgus and build two version of the terminal before the third and final station designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore had been the terminal’s final design. The station is over 170,000 square feet with new and improved retail space. There was slow a cluttered version in the 1970’s was amazing as well as the 1913 version.
The birth of Grand Central Station was considered a tragedy, as the soot and the smog was polluting the air quality. As the air quality was poor, so the train station moved completely underground, resulting into business in downtown Manhattan in 1902. Enough about how Grand Central began, what’s interesting is that it took part of the second World War II. In 1942 more than forty percent of the population was using Grand Central and Hitler planned to destroy it. During the war millions of service millions passed through Grand Central, so many that the government had opened a separate branch of the USO inside the station. So it would make sense for Hitler, one of the many Axis powers to destroy America from its roots. …show more content…
There was even a large elevator at the end of Waldorf’s hotel, big enough to contain FDR’S