The secret below Grand Central Station

[dipsydoodle]

Go underground to New York's secret rail platform under Grand Central Station - Track 61.

It does not appear on any station maps or plans and was built specially for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to use in the 1930s.

FDR had polio and used the hidden platform to get on and off vehicles without revealing his disability to the public.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7830369.stm

[Kajsa]

1. This is very interesting.

I've never heard of this before.

I'm sharing this with my son, who is history nut.

Thanks so much.

:)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. He would take the train directly to the Warldorf Astoria Hotel.

I'm a NYer and this has been televised through the recent years. It's quite cool!


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