Grand Central then and now

November 19, 2008 @ 9:25 pm

This New York Times article starts out with a neat draggable image that overlays two images of Grand Central Terminal over each other — one from 2008 and the other from 1978.

The article goes into how Grand Central has more or less remained ad-free in the past 30 years while other public spaces in the city have gone on to be covered top-to-bottom in advertising.

Anyway, go over to the article and drag the slider around to compare the images of the terminal.

Improv Everywhere freezes at Grand Central

February 2, 2008 @ 12:25 am

Improv Everywhere’s latest stunt involved 207 agents all freezing in place at the exact same moment inside Grand Central Station for a whole 5 minutes. At precisely 2:30PM, the agents involved froze in the exact positions they were in and remained that way until 2:35PM.

The video above is just wild. It’s so weird to see a place like Grand Central just literally frozen in time.