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"Grand Central Station! Crossroads of a million lives!
Gigantic stage on which are played a thousand dramas daily."
--Opening from "Grand Central Station," broadcast over the NBC Radio Blue Network, 1937

One of New York's most impressive landmarks is usually ignored because nearly all of the 100 MILLION people who enter it each year are in a hurry to get somewhere else.

Covering an amazing 48 acres and stretching another 10 blocks north underground, beneath Park Avenue (by the way, that's why there are no "Walk/Don't Walk" signs on Park Avenue; it's only 8 inches down to the train yard, far too short to insert poles into the ground), this structure is full of impressive and endearing details.

Looking up Park Avenue from the south, one sees the thirteen foot diameter clock mounted by statues of Minerva, Mercury and Hercules (in a group called Transportation by Jules-Félix Coutan) standing 50 feet tall. Inside, the Main Concourse stretches 120 feet by 375 feet, capped 125 feet above by a blue ceiling with electrically lit stars (unfortunately a backwards view). The lower level is home to The Oyster Bar with a vaulted ceiling of Guastavno tiles, and a whispering gallery.

Beaumont is proud to have participated in the renaissance of this majestic landmark. We were involved in the renovation of the waiting room and the high pressure steam stations in the "Burma Road Area"