Editing Grand Central Terminal (section)

== In popular culture ==
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Grand Central Terminal has been the subject, inspiration, or setting for literature, television and radio episodes, and films.<ref name="Roberts2013" /><ref name="BB" />

The MTA hosts about 25 large-scale and hundreds of smaller or amateur film and television productions every year.<ref name="Oscar" /> Grand Central has been a backdrop for romantic reunions between couples. After the terminal declined in the 1950s, it was more frequently used as a dark, dangerous place, even a metaphor for chaos and disorientation,<ref name="BB" /> featuring chase scenes, shootouts, homeless people, and the mentally ill.<ref>{{cite news  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/in-a-summer-of-hell-grand-central-may-be-a-bit-of-heaven.html |title=In a 'Summer of Hell,' Grand Central May Be a Bit of Heaven |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705204805/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/in-a-summer-of-hell-grand-central-may-be-a-bit-of-heaven.html?hp&target=comments |archive-date=July 5, 2017 |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |author-link=David W. Dunlap |date=July 5, 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=October 9, 2023}}{{void|comment|Fabrickator|this archive is best version with all images working and seems to load quickly}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Almost every scene filmed in the terminal's train shed was shot on Track 34, one of the few platforms without structural columns blocking views.<ref name="Carlson 2015" /><ref name="Ritz" />

Grand Central Terminal's architecture, including its Main Concourse clock, are depicted on the stage of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', a long-running [[NBC]] television show.<ref name="Langmead p. 165" /> The soundstage reconstruction of the terminal in [[Studio 8H]] was first installed in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sachs |first=Andrea |title=Meet me at Grand Central for the 100th |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/meet-me-at-grand-central-for-the-100th/2013/02/21/433d7776-7add-11e2-a044-676856536b40_story.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227111553/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-21/lifestyle/37218982_1_clock-grand-central-station-tour |archive-date=February 27, 2013 |date=February 21, 2013|access-date=November 21, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=SNL primed for 29|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2003/scene/markets-festivals/snl-primed-for-29-1117893006/|date=September 25, 2003|last1=McClintock|first1=Pamela|last2=Adalian|first2=Josef|access-date=November 21, 2020|archive-date=January 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130090010/https://variety.com/2003/scene/markets-festivals/snl-primed-for-29-1117893006/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Notable literature featuring the terminal includes [[J. D. Salinger]]'s novel ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' as well as ''Report on Grand Central Terminal'', a short story written by nuclear physicist [[Leo Szilard]] in 1948.<ref name="Langmead p. 165" /> The infrastructure in Grand Central inspired the novel ''[[The Invention of Hugo Cabret]]'', and in turn, the film ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Exploring Grand Central's Secrets, With the Author of Hugo Cabret – New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News | publisher=WNYC | date=January 6, 2012 | last=Bernstein | first=Andrea | url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/286509-exploring-grand-centrals-secrets-with-the-author-of-hugo-cabret/ | access-date=January 24, 2019 | archive-date=January 24, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124102127/https://www.wnyc.org/story/286509-exploring-grand-centrals-secrets-with-the-author-of-hugo-cabret/ | url-status=live }}</ref>