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Rumors and Secrets A “secret” sub-basement known as M42 lies under the Terminal, containing the AC to DC converters used to supply DC traction current to the Terminal. The exact location of M42 is a closely guarded secret and does not appear on maps, though it has been shown on television. There is a secret platform, number 61, under the station. The platform was built to convey President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a private elevator that led directly to his room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The purpose of the design was to hide the fact that the president had polio and was bound to a wheelchair. Today, the door to the secret elevator is welded shut. On September 11, 1976, a group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a locker at Grand Central Terminal. The group also hijacked a plane. The resulting explosion wounded over 30 and killed one. The zodiac painted on the ceiling is backwards, and the stars are slightly displaced. One explanation is that the constellations are backwards because the ceiling is based on a medieval manuscript that visualized the sky as it would look to God from outside the celestial sphere. However, because stars are not all at equal distances from Earth, this view could not correspond to the view from anywhere else in the universe. A second explanation is that the image was reversed by accident and when the Vanderbilt family learned the ceiling was painted backwards, they maintained that the ceiling reflected God’s view of the sky. There is a small dark circle on the ceiling above the image of Pisces. In a 1957 attempt to counter the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S, military asked Grand Central to host an American Redstone missile. The rocket didn’t fit, so a hole was cut in the ceiling to accommodate the rocket tip.
Future Project I would like to commission someone to edit together, alphabetically, all the movie scenes ever filmed in Grand Central. Around the World in 80 Days Arthur The Avengers The Bone Collector Carlito’s Way Conspiracy Theory The Cotton Club Duplicity Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Falling in Love Friends with Benefits The Fisher King The Freshman Hackers The House on Carroll Street I Am Legend Loser Madagascar Madagascar II: Escape 2 Africa Men In Black Midnight Run North By Northwest One Fine Day The Perfect Score The Prince of Tides Revolutionary Road Superman: The Movie Step Up 3 The Taking of Pelham 123 Unbreakable The Untouchables
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