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Grand Central Terminal Millions of shoppers under one roof Grand Central Terminal At a glance • 35 Restaurants, 68 Shops • Vanderbilt Hall & The Northeast Balcony event spaces • Powerful neighboring businesses and attractions, including: The Media Giants of Times Square The Fashion Houses around Bryant Park The Real Estate Moguls of Rockefeller Center The Financial Leaders of Park Avenue • Manhattan’s most affluent transportation hub • Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 Grand Central Terminal By The Numbers Each Hour... • An average of 7,500 people pass the corner of 42nd St. and Vanderbilt Ave. — one of NYC’s busiest intersections Each Day... • 700,000 people earning over $67 billion a year use Grand Central (1 million people per day during the holiday season) • 250,000 visitors pass through Vanderbilt Hall Each Year... • 21.6 million tourists visit Grand Central • 326,000 neighborhood office workers earn a combined $11.3 billion • The Grand Central subway stop is the busiest in New York City • Approximately 60 million people experience the events in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall Visitors... • Have a mean HHI of $95,800 • Have a median age of 41 and are 55% male and 45% female and 93% are college graduates Become a Part of Historic Grand Central Owners: Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its Subsidiary Agency, Metro-North Commuter Railroad Annual Sales: $160 million in 2006 Square Footage: 134,000 “Great civilizations of the past recognized that their citizens have aesthetic needs, that great architecture gave nobility and respite to their daily lives. They built fine buildings, spacious parks, beautiful markets. New York City is the center of civilization in our day as Athens, Rome, Persepolis were in theirs.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Tenant List.

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PERSHING SQUARE VIADUCT (Park Avenue Viaduct), Park Avenue from 40Th Street to Grand Central Terminal (42Nd Street), Borough of Manhattan
Landmarks Preservation Commission September 23, 1980, Designation List 137 LP-1127 PERSHING SQUARE VIADUCT (Park Avenue Viaduct), Park Avenue from 40th Street to Grand Central Terminal (42nd Street), Borough of Manhattan. Built 1917-19; architects Warren & Wetmore. Landmark Site: The property bounded by a line running easward parallel with the northern curb line of East 40th Street, a line running northward to the edge of Tax Map Block 1280, Lot 1, parallel with the eastern wall of the viaduct, a line running westward along the edge of Tax Map Block 1280, Lot 1, and a line running southward parallel with the western wall of the viaduct to the point of beginning. On March 11, 1980, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the Pershing Square Viaduct (Park Avenue Viaduct) and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 9). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law. Four witnesses spoke in favor of designation. There were no speakers in opposition to designation. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS Located at Park Avenue and 42nd Street, tfie Pershing Square Viaduct was constructed tn 1917-1919. The viaduct extends from 40th Street to Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street, linking upper and lower Park Avenue by way of elevated drives that make a circuit around the terminal building and descend to ground level at 45th Street. Designed in 1912 by the architectural firm of Warren & Wetmore, the viaduct was conceived as part of the original 1903 plan for the station by the firm of Reed & Stem.
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