6 Facts About Central Station

1. Grand Central Station had started keeping standard time a few hours before.

2. Grand Central Station was filmed in Technicolor for the first time in 1953.

3. Grand Central Station was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, giving it official protection from developers who wished to demolish it.

4. New York Central Station, facing bankruptcy, merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968, forming the Penn Central Railroad.

5. Grand Central Station covers 48 acres and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world.

6. Grand Central Station is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area.