Grand Central Station

Although the original Grand Central Depot was built in the same place as today's terminal, the location was not yet "central" to much of anything. The building was constructed to the north of the actual city. Each of the five chandeliers in Grand Central Terminal is gold and nickel-plated and has 144 light bulbs. The floor of Grand Central's Main Concourse consists of an entire half-acre of Tennessee marble. The 2,500 stars of the Sky Ceiling that twinkle 125 feet above the Main Concourse were supposed to depict a view of the constellations above Manhattan on an autumn night, but were painted backwards. The mistake was never corrected, and the ceiling still gives visitors a "God's eye view" of New York's nighttime sky.

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