Grand Central Madison

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Grand Central Madison, also known as the Madison Concourse and announced on trains as Grand Central, is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City. It sits beneath Grand Central Terminal, which serves the Metro-North Railroad – the other commuter rail system operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Built as part of the East Side Access project, the terminal's construction commenced in 2008, and it opened on January 25, 2023. Grand Central Madison was built to reduce travel times to and from Manhattan's East Side and to ease congestion at Penn Station, the West Side station where all Manhattan-bound LIRR trains had terminated since 1910. The new terminal enables passengers to transfer to Metro-North's Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines, as well as the New York City Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station. The station is managed by MTA Grand Central Madison Operating Company (GCMOC...

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