Every Detail of Grand Central Terminal Explained | Architectural Digest 

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ! PLEASE DO - The Chrysler Building , The Empire State Building , The Woolworth Building , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , The Brooklyn Bridge , The Manhattan Bridge , The Williamsburg Bridge , The 59th Street Bridge , Rockefeller Center , Cooper Union , Columbia University , The Cathedral Of Saint John The Divine , in fact do all of New York and Brooklyn , in fact do anything you guys like , this was so smart and pleasurable , thank you ! GREAT VIDEO !

When I came here on my vacation to NYC, I could only think about how I was at the same place as the escaped animals from the Madagascar movie

Huge shoutout to Onassis for preserving Grand Central ❤️. What happened to pen station was a tragedy and I couldn’t imagine NYC without grand central

It is mind boggling that it required a massive effort to preserve this beautiful landmark from demolition. You can be absolutely sure that it would have been impossible to replace it once it was bulldozed. Thank you, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for your leadership. Oh, I just remembered that I had my first martini in the Oyster Bar, compliments of my college roommate.

Gorgeous! And to think, NYC was actually going to tear it down...SMDH.

This was very informative and educational. Please do more like it!

Yes! Great idea for this video. More NYC

50 years ago,I had to go there twice a day-from New Jersey!I was a messenger who hauled a satchel of office materials back and forth as there was no internet in those days.I used to have the first copy of the NY Post in NJ as it was a late morning paper then.

This is my favorite and most spectacular building in all of NYC.. Thank you, Jackie Onassis

This was awesome - incredibly interesting! Definitely do more of these style videos for sure ^_^

MAKE MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS!

As a native from new york, born and raised here,Grand central station is my favorite train station. I studied history of architecture and if weren't for protests and the landmarks commision, grand central station wouldn't exist today. For me it is one of the most beautiful train stations i ever seen and i cry a little becuase it's still standing beautiful and strong and still serving many people who take the train.

This was such a wonderful and detailed video. I travel through Grand Central everyday, to and from the city, but I’ve never stopped to notice all these wonderful details besides the obvious ones. Now traveling through Grand Central will be a different experience for me.

SO beautiful! The ceiling always steals my attention.

Please Please Please make more videos like this It was so disappointing searching the channel for similar content and only finding celebrity house tours.

THIS IS SO AWESOME! i was just in grand central last week, taking my mom there for a photography session, and i never noticed all these details of Grand Central, which is one of my favorite places to visit in NYC. Every times i walk in there, there's this sense of grandeur, and this video makes me appreciate its beauty so much more!

Haven't worked there for 20yrs, but man, this took me back. Whether you're an architecture nerd, a train lover, or just a fan of Old New York, GCT ("the Terminal") just encapsulates the City at its best. It reflects the luxurious excesses of the rich and the daily worker's grind, serving locals and tourists alike - all equal under the splendor of the "stars". Thanks for this 😍

Awesome building from a time when architects were true artists and knew exactly what they were doing creating places that were both beautiful and practical. Too bad U.S. billionaires of today lack the vision to back the "Rebuild Penn Station" project which would put right the city's greatest act of civil vandalism in it's history. Great video!

this one of the bests videos ever shared on this channel. Keep the moment!

I'm so thankful that my wife, our daughter and I got the opportunity to experience this Grand Work of Architecture in April of 2018. We rode a train from Tarrytown, New York into Grand Central Terminal and when we entered the terminal we were simply in awe! The place is majestically beautiful! We saw Vanderbilt Hall and the dedication to Jacqueline Kennedy. We rode one of the elevators that seemed to take us back in time. We also learned that at its peak 130 train tracks terminated at Grand Central. That's mind boggling! The entire city of New York is amazing. We can't wait to return because although we saw many places of interest in our 8 days in the city, there are hundreds of more things we didn't see.

I've been commuting to grand central for almost 6 years and there was so much I didnt know! I no idea the Campbell Apartment was more than what you can see from the main concourse!

Incredibly well done!!! Camera work and narration are superb. (Horrible to think that this glorious structure was nearly demolished!)

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a visionary! Not only did he fund this opulent terminal, but he demanded that all the rail lines, running north from there, have at least 4 tracks each! As a result, commuting to Grand Central is a pleasure. Whereas commuting to Penn Station from Long Island is a total heartache! The MAIN LINE running through the island STILL only has 2 tracks (despite decades of assurances that they would build a 3rd one), and owing to Penn not being a terminal, it's a nightmare to move trains in and out of there!

Until I viewed this video I had no real appreciation of the sheer scale and beauty of Grand Central terminal. Thank you for posting this. It is an absolute delight to watch .

HUMANITY needs more of these videos! Amazing. Thank you for this incredible journey!

You did such a great work with that video! I loved watching every minute of it and learning so many new things about this grand architectural milestone!

...so I live in Argentina little town. ..and I haven't money to go there. ..so thanks for sharing ☝😌

This video is an amazing feat! The very interesting narration is jam-packed with details and facts, and the visuals are engaging and delightful. I felt like I was right there! I really hope you do many more of these marvelous tours again soon!!

One of my all-time favorite places on earth. I have been there at least a dozen times but still manage to get turned around in some of the passages.

One of the most beautifull railwaystations/hubs in the world. Its not only an Iconic Landmark for New York but for the entire world! Nice to see this Grand Dame still performing here duty's even better then what she once was designed for. I hope that i once may meet here in Person!

I went to New York 6 years ago, me and my sister went here and it was amazing, we had a pizza down stairs and was shocked with the size of it. I had my picture taken with a cop in the enrtance you went in xx love New York xx

Good overview, but a couple of quibbles: While Vanderbilt's decision to move his railroad's terminal station uptown to 42nd Street did promote the growth of the area, the name "Grand Central" was ridiculed at the time because it was hardly centrally located in 1871. The original terminus was downtown on 27th Street. The current building, opened 42 years later, is the third on the site, and the Commodore was long dead by then. The first was called Grand Central Depot when it opened in 1871, and was actually three separate stations in a single building. It was altered and remodeled several times, but in 1899, it was greatly expanded and renovated and re-named Grand Central Station. The tracks south to 27th Street were removed. But the renovation was a stopgap at best, and when it was decided to electrify the railroad, as ordered by the city, a totally new station was built in phases over the next ten years, opening in its current appearance in 1913. It took so long because trains continued to operate while the old station was demolished and the new one built. It was then named Grand Central Terminal. The second quibble is the picture shown with the statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which was moved from the former downtown station. The photograph shown with the statue is of the original Grand Central Depot, and not the older station on 27th Street. The way the text reads would cause someone to think that were a picture of the downtown station, which it is not. Minor points, and maybe not too important, but I noticed them, and anyone who knows the history off the building would spot them, too

This is such an amazing video! Please let this be an ongoing series.

Awesome video! I like that style of explaining everything I'd love to see more of this!

ThankYou for showing where CBS was located. I have ALWAYS wondered where exactly it was located.

Terrific video. Thanks. I had lunch at a bar in the basement. Met a nice lady, a designer from Conneticut who was visiting a client . I felt so connected to the NYC experience. Those platforms are enormous.

Very well put together, I was in NYC a few years ago , this place is hard to forget.

I could watch this a dozen times and not grow tired of the details. A sensational series, thank you for this.

WE NEED MOREE! Brilliant video, cheers!

i love this, please make it a series. would love to hear about other stations like penn station Baltimore and just other landed historic buildings.

I pass through this terminal almost every week and never knew there was so much more to it behind the scenes. Very informative, thank you!

Watched this on a lark, but what a sweet video - the two narrators work really well together and it is really well filmed and mapped out. Great work.

Visited NY I’m August and this location is beyond amazing. The buzz, the people, the architecture is epic.

Fantastic video. Enjoyed pouring over all these details and anecdotes of such a famous building. Thank you!

Wow, its bizarre to think of ramps as something that was ever invented!

Extremely fascinating! Thank you, AD. And thanks, Misters Robins & Roberts, for the informative tour through one of the great NYC icons.

Commuted through this beautiful terminal for years, thank you for all the interesting facts I have never heard before

This is truly lovely!!! Thank you gentlemen for all the time and effort in the making.

FABULOUS!!! So great to see it again, I'm in sunny California and used to travel to NY but don't get there so often now. I love the shops as well. The food market is the best!!! Thank you for such a great video.

What an incredible tour!!! Loved it! Such a well produced series! So glad I found these!👌 Thank you!

One of my absolute favorite spaces in all of NYC! Thank you so much for this walkthrough!

I love this :) I commuted through grand central for a couple of years and it never ceased to amaze me. It’s easy to get caught in the hustle and bustle of this station especially during rush hour, but it’s truly fantastic and I feel so lucky to have been able to use this terminal everyday.

That tile design was used in old Persian Architecture to create arces and domes and the echo effect was also used for anouncement , speaches and parayer calls by design. I find it fascinating how its brushed off as it was his design and the echo was by accident.

Well detailed video, with simplicity and clarity. Worked for the railroad for 30 years in design and construction and I've seen the transformation - most dramatic in 1998 to 2000 when the Main concourse ceiling was cleaned and in 91, and 2002, when the main Waiting area was renovated . All is restored to its original build-out because Grand Central is a Landmark Building. well done.

Wonderful! Thanks so much for this great tour of this great temple of transport!

Simply ...Incredible. Thanks for sharing this.

This series is so phenomenal. Thank you @Architecturaldigest for this content! Please continue feeding our brains and inspiring our curiosity. Cheers!

Everytime I rewatch this I learn more. More of these please!

THANK YOU for these amazing architectural and historical tours! I have learned so much about a city that I have been to several times and never knew these things.

For people to start to know and appreciate history and beauty that surrounds them , please do more of theses videos.

Fascinating. Guys who know their stuff & explain it in an interesting way.

This has to be one of the greatest video's on You Tube. Just felt I was there as you showed us around this amazing building in such a calm and dignified way. Thank you so much, I really enjoyed it and learnt so much.

This is fantastic. Lots of information, well-delivered and beautifully shot. A great tour of GCT!

Please do more videos like this, they’re amazing!

You are literally blowing my mind!!! I've traveled into this building, every day, for 7 years and never knew any (most) of this!

Remarkable. Extremely well thought out video. Thank you so much.

I can't believe they intended to destroy this building. An utter irreverence and disdain for history is building again in our culture, and we need step up again to defend the richness of our species' heritage.

Wonderful tour. I am so pleased that this beau arts was not torn down. There are so many facets to this jewel which I was ignorant of until I viewed this marvelous video. Thank-you to Mr. Robins.

Wow! Thank you. Magnicent building, fascinating history of travel, still going strong, intriguing restaurants and remarkable spaces. Thank goodness it was saved from demolition!! Xxx

What a gorgeous building. I've been through there many times and never stopped to appreciate what an architectural marvel it is, though I always knew that it was.

This is awesome. Like in the classic sense of being in awe. I walk through here a ton and never noticed these details.

I've lived in NYC for most of my life and never knew about the "Apartment"/lounge! What a beautiful area.

This was extremely interesting​. Stumbled across it, and really enjoyed it!

very well done presentation. i enjoyed watching so much

Thank you so much for videoing this enormous beautiful building. I learnt more from this than I did when i visited NY.

My commute takes me to the abysmal Penn Station, but I will go out of my way to head to Grand Central from time to time, simply for its beauty. What an impressive video, great detail and presentation of information, both verbally and visually.

The view at night across the front of Grand Central with the Chrysler Building in the background is stunning.

thank you! commute thru here every day and had missed almost every one of these details in my rush.

One of the best contents in RU-vid I’d dare say. Great job!

Fabulous, thank you for posting this!

Amazing history and descriptions of this remarkable building...thank you!🙏

Fascinating information about a beautiful building. Thank you AD!

What a wonderful place! I can imagine people coming from other places who weren't used to cities feeling truly awed and overwhelmed by this Terminal. It's on my must see in New York if I ever visit this massive metropolis.

I'm a New Yorker and I learned so much. I had to only stop and replay the interesting facts a few hundred times

So glad I found this channel!

In my youth (1960's & 70's), I used to spend a lot of time in this terminal. I can't believe how clean and bright it is now. As I watched this, I couldn't help remembering what used to be... Like the window shade type signs that the conductors would pull down to label the entrances to the tracks. Or the big Bulova clock that used to be in the archway between Vanderbilt hall and the main concourse. Thanks for the memories from an old New Yorker living way out in Los Angeles these days.

This is amazing!! Like a guided tour for free 🤩🤙🏻🤙🏻 Thank You guys 😁

This was so interesting. Please do more videos like this!! Love!

These are so good: so well thought out, so well researched, so well narrated, so well edited. Well done all: a primer in short documentary

Such a beautiful place. I was there on May 28 !! Can’t wait to come back

Wow.... such a superb feat of architecture. Thank you so much for sharing, i'm watching all the way from the city of Durban, South Africa.

I absolutely loved this. I need more!

I love that this video starts and ends on the same subway entrance I use every morning!

Speechless! A really great and informative video!

Thank you for this great representation.

Wooooow! Thank you for taking me to grand central!😍

Been in and out of this Beautiful building more times than I can count.Much History tied into it and hearing the names put Smile on my face which also brings me back to were I worked.Thanks so much for sharing Deb.😉👍✌🤝

This is so satisfying to listen to.

Lovey video. I took a walking tour of Grand Central Station the last time I was there and I still learned new things about the station

Thank you for this informative video. I've never been and must make a visit now that you have pointed out how beautiful it is.