
Paquet de liens #1
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Trains depart every 58 seconds on 63 tracks during rush hour at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal as a crushing mass of humanity passes through its vast central concourse. Last week, we descended into the secret depths and vertigo-inducing heights of the city’s showpiece to see what lays hidden out of sight of most visitors. In this, the deepest, largest basement in all of New York, 2.8 million cubic yards of earth and rock were once removed to create the enormous temple to transportation. When the station opened in 1913, it was the third rail building to stand at that location, but the first to be electrified.

