Grand Central Station Terminal in Lower Midtown. 42nd Street and Park Avenue. Phone 212-340-2583. (Free sightseeing Wed-Fri 12:30 pm). Symbol of the City of New York, also called Grand Central to dry building was completed in 1913 and still today is the largest station in the world in number of platforms, 44 with 67 tracks, 41 on the upper level and 26 in the bottom. It was built in the Beaux Arts style, and stands above the main lobby with its high vaulted ceiling and three huge windows 23 feet high. For this hall daily spend half a million people and is one of the sets common in films shot in the city. The vaulted ceiling is painted in green decorated with zodiac signs painted upside down by the Frenchman Paul Helleu. The station also has all kinds of shops and restaurants of both label and snacks. Grand Central Station Terminal in Lower Midtown. 42nd Street and Park Avenue. Phone 212-340-2583. (Free sightseeing Wed-Fri 12:30 pm). Symbol of the City of New York, also called Grand Central to dry building was completed in 1913 and still today is the largest station in the world in number of platforms, 44 with 67 tracks, 41 on the upper level and 26 in the bottom. It was built in the Beaux Arts style, and stands above the main lobby with its high vaulted ceiling and three huge windows 23 feet high. Opened in February 1913 and renovated in 1998, Grand Central Terminal is one of the architectural jewels of New York. The current station was built on the old Grand Central Station, opened in 1871 and with a name that still many use to refer to the current season. The construction of Grand Central Terminal was motivated by the need to bury the tracks and retire steam trains. From the first sketches, works completarse.En took 10 years to 50 years, the boom of the automobile and the creation of new residential areas meant that the train fell into disuse. This, coupled with the large increase in land price in Manhattan, started the season hanging by a thread. Finally, to save the station, decided to build shopping centers in this and sell the office building had been built at the back. That sale came the skyscrapers of the Pan Am (now MetLife), 59 plantas.Si well over 100,000 people use this station daily, this number is decimated by the number of tourists who come to shop at their stores, eat in restaurants or just take pictures of the building. The most striking part of the season is undoubtedly the hall, Vanderbilt Hall is a waiting room of more than 1,100 square meters. The most surprising of the room, besides its size, are your ceilings and decor in general.