Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York metropolitan area. It also serves the Long Island Rail Road through Grand Central Madison, a 16-acre (6.5 ha) addition to the station located underneath the Metro-North tracks, built from 2007 to 2023. The terminal also connects to the New York City Subway at the Grand Central–42nd Street station. The terminal is the third-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn Station and Toronto Union Station.
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Getting to Grand Central Terminal
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 9 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 18 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 21 km
- Philadelphia → Grand Central Terminal134 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $12–17
- Hartford → Grand Central Terminal156 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $14–19
- Albany → Grand Central Terminal212 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · $19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Grand Central Terminal
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- Get inLimited ferry service is available at the Yorkville NYC Ferry stop at East 90th Street and York Avenue within Carl Schurz Park.
- Get inThe Soundview ferry provides service every 30 to 35 minutes during rush hours, every hour during middays and evenings, and every hour and a 40 minutes on weekends.
- Get inThe Soundview ferry runs from Soundview in the Bronx, a riverside residential neighborhood, and travels down the East River, providing service to Yorkville along with service at the East 34th Street Ferry Landing in Gramercy and Pier 11 at Wall Street in the Financial District, where you can connect to a variety of other ferry services throughout the city.
- Get inAn adult one-way ticket on the ferry costs $4.50, while a 10-trip adult pass costs $29.Bringing a bike, which is certainly an option with the extensive bike paths in the neighborhood, brings a $1.00 surcharge.
- Get inTickets can be purchased on the [https://www.ferry.nyc/appguide/ NYC Ferry app, the ticket machines at the landings, or a ticket agent (present only at Pier 11/Wall Street).
From Wikivoyage: Manhattan/Upper East Side, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal is 4 km from Manhattan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.