Tour Grand Central Station in Manhattan (bring 20 friends)


Item Number: 222

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $500

Online Close: Nov 17, 2013 11:02 PM EST

Bid History: 10 bids - Item Sold!


Description

Tour Grand Central Terminal with noted historian Dan Brucker, can accommodate up to 25 people



  • Discover a jewel in GCT worth between $10-20 million.

  • Visit a secret, hidden staircase on the main concourse that no one ever sees--but is used all the time.

  • Learn about New York City's deepest, largest and most secret basement, which Adolf Hitler tried to have destroyed in 1942.  And what he wanted to have destroyed--and almost did--is still down there.

  • Unveil a design error in the main concourse--that is the size of the main concourse.

  • Learn about a secret train station (which we adamantly state does NOT exist) that's buried within the terminal--which contains another historic secret within itself. Built in the 1930s, it's so secret today that gunmen are often stationed nearby to protect it.

  • Explore our Lost and Found--and find out why it's the word's most effective lost and found.

  • Whisper a secret in a certain corner of the terminal--and have your friend hear it 30 feet away.

  • Learn how time--as we know it--actually, truly began in Grand Central.

  • Learn about the world's most secret elevator.  Built in 1932, and which the federal government insists MUST ALWAYS be kept in perfect condition.

  • View an elaborate clock carved in a marble wall with a cryptic inscription testifying that time - as we know it today - began in Grand Central Terminal.

  • Hear about a 1913 Westinghouse electronic computer (yes, from 1913) that was designed to locate trains that have seemingly disappeared. And it's encased in glass.

  • View massive one-inch secret---invisible to us today, but to be clearly seen and known hundreds of thousands of years from now.


 



Special Instructions

RULES FOR THE ROAD



  • All must have fairly solid footwear.  Absolutely NO high heels or baby heels.  If women must wear pumps, they should have a "Cuban" or "military" heel. NO sandals, flip flops, and we prefer no "baby toe"/open toe pumps.

  • People WILL get dirty.  So please no light color cashmere, camel's hair, or vicuna coats.


 PHOTOGRAPHIC/CAMERA NEEDS



  • Make sure your camera equipment has a big reserve of memory, power, equipment, etc.

  • We will be shooting in some very low light areas that are made worse by mercury vapor lights.

  • Make sure your equipment has a flash.  You will need it.

  • You will need camera equipment with a very high ISO setting.

  • You can bring a tripod.