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Grand Central Terminal

[Grand Central Station: IRT West Side / Seventh Avenue Line]

Grand Central Station during construction of the IRT West Side / Seventh Avenue subway line.

IMAGE DATE1901
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Grand Central Station (as Grand Central Terminal was known between 1900 and its 1913 expansion), January 27, 1901.

Grand Central Station included a stop on the city's first subway line. The IRT's inaugural line provided service from City Hall to Grand Central along today's Lexington Avenue Line (4/5/6), with the present-day 42nd Street Shuttle tracks connecting to the west side tracks of the Broadway—Seventh Avenue Line.

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