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 Encyclopedia: Grand Central Station
Grand Central Depot, completed in 1871, was designed to bring the trains of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, the Harlem River Railroad, and the New Haven Railroad together in one large station.
Grand Central Terminal (often still called Grand Central Station, although technically that is the name of the nearby post office) is a train station in midtown Manhattan, New York, a borough of New York City, located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue.
Grand Central North is a relatively recent addition that provides access to Grand Central from 47th and 48th streets.
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 Grand Central Terminal - NYCtourist.com
Most people refer to this Beaux-Arts beauty as Grand Central Station but it's actually a Terminal because this is where train lines originate and terminate.
Grand Central Terminal almost met the same fate but preservationists like Jacqueline Kennedy had it declared a landmark in the mid-1960's.
If you're meeting someone at Grand Central, it'll probably be by the famous four-sided, brass clock atop the Information Booth in the center of the Main Concourse.
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 Grand Central Terminal, New York City
The current Grand Central Terminal was not the first railway station at 42nd street and Park Avenue.
The project included not just the new railway station, but a whole complex with office buildings and apartments, which became known as 'Terminal City'.
Grand Central Terminal is one of the two monumental gateways that were built in the heyday of railway transportation.
www.aviewoncities.com /nyc/grandcentralterminal.htm

  
 Grand Central Terminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Central Depot was designed to bring the trains of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, the New York and Harlem Railroad, and the New York and New Haven Railroad together in one large station.
View in the excavation for the new Grand Central Station, Sept. 1907.
Outside the station, the clock in front of the Grand Central facade facing 42nd Street contains the world’s largest example of Tiffany glass and is surrounded by sculptures carved by the John Donnelly Company of Minerva, Hercules and Mercury.
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 Grand Central Station New York
If I am a rebel, it is not I who am answerable, for it was the tyranny and cruelty of M. Grand Central Station New York
It is only too true that in certain provinces of Central Africa cannibalism is still openly practised.
Meanwhile it is always going on a large scale, and principally in Central Africa.
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 ABS-CBNNEWS.COM
NEW YORK- About 200 activists swarmed into New York's Grand Central Station on Thursday, hung banners and chanted "Fight AIDS, not war" on the day President Bush accepts the Republican nomination at his party's convention.
Police officers arrested about a dozen people who sat down around the information booth in the train station's main concourse and refused to move at the height of the morning rush hour, witnesses said.
Police did not have an exact number of arrests.
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 Anti-Bush Banner Launched in Grand Central
In Grand Central Station, in the midst of rush hour last Tuesday evening, anti-war protesters unleashed a 15-foot-high giant banner, suspended by helium balloons.
Citizens For Legitimate Government: New Yorkers Launch Huge Anti-Bush Banner with Balloons in Grand Central Station
The protesters chose Grand Central Terminal because it is a main artery of
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Facts gave the Grand Master a very strong position, but technically he was only _primus inter pares_.
While he yet hesitated between affection and revenge, he heard that she had died of grief and misery.
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Cameron was then lost in the provinces of Central Africa, when, in November, 1874, Stanley quitted Bagamoga, on the eastern coast.
As it had rained, he soon came on the trail of the Camisards, the terrible game which he was hunting down.
I distributed their lands, their houses, and their goods amongst my followers, and from that moment I could call the town of Tepelen my own.
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 Chicago White Sox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chicago was in first place in the Central Division by one game over Cleveland when play was stopped.
Chicago may have a legendary cross-town baseball rivalry, but one thing most people can agree on is that the city has always been a "baseball town." This may be remarkable fact considering the unrelenting failures the two teams have visited upon their fans for so many decades prior to 2005.
The Chicago Cubs are the crosstown rivals of the White Sox, although the nature of the rivalry is unique; with the exception of the 1906 World Series, in which the White Sox upset the favored Cubs, the teams never met in an official game until 1997, when interleague play was introduced.
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 Encyclopedia of Chicago
Graham Taylor at Chicago Commons Settlement House, 1924
General Map of Chicago, Showing the Park System, principal Transportation Lines, and points of Mechanical Interest to be visited
Governmental Problems in the Chicago Metropolitan Area: A Report of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Local Governmental Services Commission, 1957
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /browse/histG.html   (82 words)

  
 Grand Central - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Central Station, a train station in Chicago; also the name of the predecessor to Grand Central Terminal (following Grand Central Depot) in Manhattan, New York,
Grand Central Terminal, a train station in Manhattan, New York, USA,
Grand Central, was a former discount department store bought out by Fred Meyer in 1984.
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 Railroad Stations
The station was built in the high Victorian Gothic style, and featured a large central pavilion area, along with canopies that sprawled around the entire building.
While the building itself was a curious mix of architectural styles, it served as a precursor to the grandeur of future terminal stations in Chicago.
The Central Depot, built in 1856 for the Illinois Central and Chicago and Alton Railroads, was used until the early 1890s.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1739.html   (772 words)

  
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The grand, mannered, symmetrical treatment is very remarkable and characteristic.
These will be found explained at length in the Fourth Series of Sacred and Legendary Art.
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 Daniel's Manhattan Architecture - Grand Central Station
Gigantic stage on which are played a thousand dramas daily." -Opening from Grand Central Station broadcast over the NBC Radio Blue Network, 1937.
Grand Central Terminal is one of the great buildings in America.
Combining distinguished architecture with innovative engineering solutions to the problems of accommodating the vast network of rail lines, terminal activities and the 400,000 people who pass through the building each day, Grand Central Terminal functions as a major urban passenger terminal as well today as it did when it was built.
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 Con-Cor Presents All-Railroads.com, Grand Central Station of Cyberspace
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Con-Cor has a huge sale going on right now to clear our warehouse of older items to make room for lots of NEW items coming in the future.
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 Grand Central Station, Inc.
Grand Central Station, Inc. is an Internet provider located in Bismarck, North Dakota.
We offer a variety of services to you such as, high speed wireless, DSL, 56k dial-up, webpage hosting, e-mail services, and much more.
To log into the SPAM firewall and control your own level of filtering, click the Barracuda image to the right.
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 Anonymous Photographer - Grand Central Station II Imagine It on Your Wall
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The proper name for this Beaux-Arts landmark is Grand Central Terminal because major NYC train lines originate and terminate there.
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 Grand Central Terminal
The law regarding Grand Central Terminal and steam locomotives is Chapter 425 of the 1903 legislative session, laws of New York State, titled "An Act to provide for further regulation of the terminals and approaches thereto of the New York and Harlem railroad at and north of Forty-second street in the city of New York.
One of the conditions of the construction of Grand Central was that the New Haven Railroad was granted right-of-way and access to the terminal "in perpetuity".
Grand Central was not the only major station in New York City.
www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/GrandCentral.html   (3232 words)

  
 Bird's Eye View of Central Station
Central Station was located in the heart of railroad action in Memphis.
Central Station is located along the passenger main of the Illinois Central through Memphis.
The Frisco coach yard was parallel to Central Station west of the crossing.
www.cbu.edu /~mcondren/MRP/Birds-Eye-View-Central-Station.htm   (713 words)

  
 4-02 YLD section newsletter
The Court reasoned that the primary investment-backed expectation for Grand Central Station was as a train station.
Co., the owner of Grand Central Station, leased airspace above Grand Central Station to a tenant who sought to build an office tower above the train station.
New York City adopted a landmark preservation ordinance and designated Grand Central Station a landmark.
www.illinoisbar.org /Sections/yld/4-02b.htm   (1089 words)

  
 CITY ARTS - Show8: UnCut
BRENDAN GILL: In the time that Grand Central was built, there wasn't a single town in the United States, no matter how small, where the railroad station wasn't bigger than it needed to be.
Grand Central was designed by architects who lived in a particular historic moment, and must have gotten caught up in what was happening in America at the time.
If railroad stations were grand -- and some of them were indeed grandiose -- it was because there were different railroad lines in the United States and each railroad line was vying to be grander than the other.
www.thirteen.org /cityarts3/show8/uncutp.html   (3907 words)

  
 Central Station: For the Future by Eric Miller
If Central Station is to be saved, most importantly the people of Buffalo must come together to discover the strengths that do exist, to build on those strengths and make the building the part of the neighbohood it never sought to become.
All things considered, Central Station is an asset to Buffalo and can be used as a catalyst for building up the neighborhood and the city.
Today the station is an attraction for trouble in the form of presenting physical danger to neighborhood children, as well as in the form of being an attraction to vagrants and criminal elements, not to mention blight.
www.buffalohistoryworks.com /terminal/essays/eric-miller2.htm   (4723 words)

  
 Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: Eagle Eye
When Grand Central Station, the neoclassical structure that opened in 1898 at the corner of 42nd Street and Park Avenue, was replaced by the larger Beaux-Arts building 93 years ago, the eagles were dispersed around the New York region.
Morrison's attraction to the Grand Central eagles began with a similar interest: tracking the 22 marble eagles removed from New York City's Pennsylvania Station during the building's mid-1960s demolition.
Laurie Hawkes and Paul Grand Pre, owners of the Bronxville house—which had been built a decade and a half after the eagle's arrival in their yard-to-be—were excited by Morrison's hunt.
www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arch_story/080803.htm   (1117 words)

  
 Chicago Rail Junctions - Union Station
The station building occupies a full city block just west of the downtown area, and is bordered by Clinton, Canal and Adams streets on the west, east and north respectively, and by Jackson Boulevard on the south.
The station building was demolished in 1974, but the commuter platforms are still in place, used by both Metra Electric (who inherited the IC commuter lines) and the South Shore.
The Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee used the elevated rapid transit tracks to reach their terminal at Roosevelt Road, and the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin had a terminal on Wells Street.
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 Daily News...Advocate.com
Approximately 200 AIDS activists chanting "Fight AIDS, not Iraq," staged a protest Thursday morning in New York City's Grand Central Station, CNN reports.
AIDS activists protest at New York's Grand Central Station
Michael Kink, one of the organizers of the protest, said, "We're trying to make a point about compassion and AIDS.
www.advocate.com /new_news.asp?id=13605&sd=09/04/04-09/07/04   (1874 words)

  
 grandcentral397.html
IBM's Almaden Research Center's Grand Central Station project incorporates both Udi Manber, a member of the team that developed Harvest, and the Harvest concept of an automatically generated information snapshot, known as metadata.
Also, I want to know if my copyright is showing up someplace." Once these individual requests are formulated, Grand Central Station builds a profile of the user and keeps him or her informed whenever something new appears on the digital horizon.
Almaden's Grand Central Station technology is designed ultimately to allow users to pull and push information on the Web.
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 Union Station : 210 S. Canal - Chicago Landmark
The Illinois Central and Rock Island Depots, and our own Grand Central Station at Harrison and Wells are now demolished, while Dearborn Station at Polk Street has become a Galleria, but the 1909 Union Station stands, and has been refurbished within the last decade.
The last of Chicago's great turn-of-the-century train depots, and one of the few left in the nation, Union Station was designed by the architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White in the style to which Americans had become accustomed at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Monumental architecture housed the nation's colossal ambitions, and Chicago's role as a railroad hub spurred construction of multiple train stations in the immediate area of the Loop.
www.travelgrande.com /chicago-travel-guide/union-station-info.htm   (192 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Features - "GDC 2002: Manhattan as Muse: New York City as a Conceptual Tool" [04.17.02]
Grand Central Station, which was completed in 1913, has an enormous concourse.
The arena is a centralized space, but also a network of supporting corridors, lobbies; crowd gathering and meeting places.
At 34th Street, we cross over the Amtrak entry into Penn Station from New Jersey, which opens up a large hole in the ground, and reveals a building spanning the tracks on a large truss.
www.gamasutra.com /features/20020417/brown_02.htm   (1163 words)

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