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====Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foyer==== The main entrance into the terminal, underneath the Park Avenue Viaduct, opens into the [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] Foyer.<ref name="Press 2014">{{cite web | last=Associated Press | title=Grand Central entrance named for ex-first lady | work=The Journal News | date=June 30, 2014 | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014/06/30/grand-central-entrance-named-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis/11750701/ | access-date=July 25, 2022 | archive-date=July 25, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725224000/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014/06/30/grand-central-entrance-named-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis/11750701/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Johnson 2014">{{cite web | last=Johnson | first=Victoria | title=Jackie Kennedy Onassis Foyer opens in Grand Central Terminal | website=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 | date=July 1, 2014 | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jackie-kennedy-onassis-foyer-opens-grand-central-terminal-article-1.1850628 | access-date=July 25, 2022 | archive-date=July 25, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725224042/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jackie-kennedy-onassis-foyer-opens-grand-central-terminal-article-1.1850628 | url-status=live }}</ref> The room is a short passage with a sloped floor and arched shop windows along its side walls. It is adorned with glass and bronze chandeliers, a classical cornice, and a decorative [[Tympanum (architecture)|tympanum]] above the doors leading to Vanderbilt Hall. The tympanum has sculpted bronze garlands and a [[caduceus]] below an inscripted panel that reads: "To all those with head, heart, and hand{{β’}}Toiled in the construction of this monument to the public service{{β’}}This is inscribed." Above the panel is a clock framed by a pair of carved cornucopias.<ref name="Interior10"/> In 2014, the foyer was named for Onassis, former [[First Lady of the United States]], who in the 1970s helped ward off the demolition of the Main Concourse and the construction of [[Grand Central Tower]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Grand Central Entrance Named For Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|work=CBS New York|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/grand-central-entrance-to-be-named-for-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis/|date=June 30, 2014|access-date=February 15, 2023|archive-date=February 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215154149/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/grand-central-entrance-to-be-named-for-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=40 Years Rescued, 20 Years Renewed |url=https://www.grandcentralterminal.com/celebrates/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Grand Central Terminal |language=en-US |archive-date=February 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215155209/https://www.grandcentralterminal.com/celebrates/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cassidy |first=Tina |date=2013-02-05 |title=The Surprising Role Jackie Kennedy Onassis Played in Saving Grand Central |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-05/the-surprising-role-jackie-kennedy-onassis-played-in-saving-grand-central |access-date=2023-02-15 |archive-date=February 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215155139/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-05/the-surprising-role-jackie-kennedy-onassis-played-in-saving-grand-central |url-status=live }}</ref>
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