What is the Grand Central station?

Question

Is that where all the subways meet? If not,Where do the trains take you?

Answer 1

Grand Central Terminal is a massive, old, beautiful building in midtown Manhattan.  It's the end of the line for most Metro-North Railroad lines, serving commuters north of the city.

Grand Central also has the 4/5/6 trains which run north-south along Lexington Avenue, the 7 train which goes east-west from Times Square to Flushing, Queens, and an S shuttle train which just goes back and forth between Times Square and Grand Central.

So, only five subway routes (4/5/6/7/S) go through Grand Central.  Really, there's no single place where all the subways meet.  The rest of the trains take you to...other places.  Huge numbers of them meet in some places, like Times Square, Herald Square, Union Square, Fulton Street, downtown Brooklyn, and a few other spots.  Here's the map:

http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Where the 4/5/6 green and 7 purple lines cross, that's Grand Central.

Grand Central Terminal also has many restaurants, shops, things like that.

Does this make a little more sense?  Hope this helps!

Answer 2

it's the main station for the trains in New York.

Answer 3

See this link.

Answer 4

Acutally,  Grand Central is a train terminal,  not a station.   A station is a stop along the route,  a terminal is the spot where trips end,  and begin again.  

Where the subways all meet?  There is no point where they all meet.  They often interlink,  however.  

With respect to where the trains take you - just the ones from Grand Central Terminal,  you mean?  North, and northeast,  the carrier being Metro-North.   The ones from Penn Station are another matter:  they take you in all sorts of different directions !

If you are referring to subway 'trains',  then the answer is that the subway is a vast system of (mostly) underground trains;  they take you to all the five boroughs of New York City:  Manhattan,  Brooklyn,  Bronx,  Queens and Staten Island.  

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Answer 5

Grand Central station is a subway station complex consisting of several separate stations connected by passageways and staircases: the Lexington Avenue line (4, 5, and 6), the Flushing line (7) which is 2 levels below the Lexington Avenue platform and the 42nd St Shuttle which is a remnant of the original 1904 subway route.  The original route ran up Park Avenue then curved west thru what is now the shuttle station and after Times Square (which was originally a local station) curved north up what is now the 7th Avenue line (1,2 and 3).  The Lexington Avenue venue lines were added in 1918.

The downtown  4, 5 and 6 trains go to lower Manhattan.  The 4 and 5 continue to eastern Brooklyn.  The uptown 4 goes to Woodlawn (Jerome and Bainbridge Avenues in the north central area.  The 5 goes to the north east Bronx near the border of the Bronx and Mount Vernon.  The 6 goes to the eastern Bronx (Pelham Bay Park).

The 7 runs from Times Square to Main Street, Flushing in northern Queens.

The 42nd St Shuttle is just that - it runs under 42nd St between Grand Central and Times Square.

For more geographical detail of the areas/neighborhoods served it is best to look at a NYC Subway map.  A copy can be obtained free at any subway station or can be viewed online at:

http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

It is important to understand that the MetroNorth Railroad station is Grand Central Terminal (not Grand Central Station).  

Answer 6

its a terminal for trains leaving to upstate or whatever. Many tourist go there because of the architectur, new york transit museum and you can also eat or shopping there.  

Answer 7

Grand Central Station is the main terminal for MetroNorth Rail Road, which is a commuter railroad serving New York City, upstate New York and Connecticut.

There are also five subway lines that run through Grand Central - 4/5/6/7/S.  These subways run through Manhattan and into the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

You can use the S (shuttle) to get to Times Square which has even more subway lines, so you can acess close to all the subway lines from there.

They also have lots of retail stores, restaurants and a large hall for events.