A Commuter's Tour: Appreciate Grand Central
You’ve been in this building more times than you can count.
What do you even know about it?
This 75 minute tour is designed for commuters who want to learn about the building they’ve spent so much of their lives just passing through. So this time, take the later train home, and make Grand Central itself the destination.
This tour will cover an abridged history of Grand Central, incredible stories of commuters, how the operations work, commuting statistics, and facts that will wow you, guaranteed.
Come by yourself, with a coworker, or a spouse.
Leave with a greater appreciation of the building, New York City, and a litany of factoids you can impress with.
Quotes
“The station, as he entered it, was murmurous with the immense and distant sound of time... [The] calm voice of time hovered along the walls and ceiling of that mighty room, distilled out of the voices and movements of the people who swarmed beneath. It was elemental, detached, indifferent to the lives of men. They contributed to it as drops of rain contribute to a river that draws its flood and movement majestically from great depths, out of purple hills at evening.
Few buildings are vast enough to hold the sound of time, and now it seemed...that there was a superb fitness in the fact that the one which held it better than all others should be a railway station. For here, as nowhere else on earth, men were brought together for a moment at the beginning or end of their innumerable journeys, here one saw their greetings and farewells, here, in a single instant, one got the entire picture of the human destiny. ”
“Commuter —
one who spends his life /
In riding to and from his wife; /
A man who shaves and takes a train /
And then rides back to shave again.”
About The Operator
Born and raised in Harrison, New York, Matt has taken the trains to and from Grand Central Terminal regularly since he was 13 years old when he commuted for high school.
Ever since then, he knew there was something special about Grand Central Station, but he wouldn’t have been able to tell you exactly what. This tour solves that quandary.
Now a licensed tour guide living in Brooklyn, he made this tour to enhance commuters’ civic pride for the phenomenal history that lives in every corner of this building. This is 75 minutes that will be well worth your while.
Matt holds a Bachelor’s degree from Villanova University, where he majored in both Marketing and English Literature. He is also a proud graduate of Regis High School, ‘12.
