Our First Arrival at Grand Central Madison
W hen we visited Manhattan with Lukey and Kenzie back at Christmastime, we never did tour the new Grand Central Madison part of Grand Central Terminal so we were seeing this new part of Grand Central for the first time just this past weekend. If we had the time back at Christmastime, we would have spent a little time exploring this new extension to Grand Central. It just so happens that our Long Island Railroad train arrives in this new extension to Grand Central so we were finally able to experience this new train station ourselves. This part of the station is quite large and extends for six blocks underground... very much underground at about 180 feet below street level. Consequently, we encountered numerous sets of stairs and escalators to get back up to street level. One of these escalators is noteworthy which I will mention later in this blog entry. When we stepped out of the train, we were on a beautiful, clean and bright station platform! Even the kids said, "Wow&quo