{"id":5442,"date":"2013-02-08T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2013-02-08T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:56:40","slug":"happy-birthday-grand-central-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2013\/02\/happy-birthday-grand-central-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Grand Central Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLots of stories about Grand Central Station have been flying around the internet these past few weeks. The station first opened its doors on Feb. 2, 1913. And no matter how grand it may be, 100 years is nothing to take lightly. Especially considering how many “grand” stations have fallen<\/a> to the wrecking ball before. In 1968, the New York City’s Landmarks Commission denied a developer permission to demolish much of the upper level concourse and the Vanderbilt Room. A 55-story tower was planned to take its place. That Landmark Commission was formed in 1965 after the demolition of Penn Station \u2013 which was equally as beautiful. The photo above was taken just after the morning rush hour, on January 9, 1968…<\/p>\n

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\nGrand Central Terminal, at Vanderbilt Ave and 42nd St. c.1919.<\/p>\n

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\nSunlight streams through the windows in the concourse at Grand Central Terminal, 1954.<\/p>\n

Many more amazing photos of this grand 100-year old station can be seen here \"external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of stories about Grand Central Station have been flying around the internet these past few weeks. The station first opened its doors on Feb. 2, 1913. And no matter how grand it may be, 100 years is nothing to take lightly. Especially considering how many “grand” stations have fallen to the wrecking ball before. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[399,311,3],"tags":[615,607,17,1068,928],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city-subway","category-trainrailroad-stuff","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-grand-central-station","tag-new-york-central-railroad","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-railroad-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}