Touring Grand Central With the Ambassador. ?When Grand Central opened, people were aghast! Simply aghast!? If you can deliver that line with the best, most genuine New Yawker accent, with genuine enthusiasm and genuine dramatic arm flailings, you?ll begin to have an idea of what it?s like to spend the afternoon with the New York […]The post Inside Grand Central Terminal With Curious Traveler appeared first on Pursuitist.

Touring Grand Central With the Ambassador.?When Grand Central opened, people were aghast! Simply aghast!? If you can deliver that line with the best, most genuine New Yawker accent, with genuine enthusiasm and genuine dramatic arm flailings, you?ll begin to have an idea of what it?s like to spend the afternoon with the New York institution that is Grand Central Terminal?s Ambassador, Dan Brucker.Dan is as much a part of iconic Grand Central as its clock. Well, there?s actually two iconic clocks, and only one Dan, but that?s as it should be. Dan has been interviewed on his knowledge of Grand Central?s Grand history on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, the Today Show, and on my travel series, Curious Traveler, on PBS. He was just made for TV. So, let?s start our tour.The world?s largest train station (or train terminal, as Dan will correct you), Grand Central, is known as the ?Temple of Transportation? for good reason. In 1869, the designers wrote that ?People who come to New York should enter a palace at the end of the...