Grand Central Terminal hides a basement so secret, that guards once had shoot-to-kill orders

Wikimedia Commons/Author: Michelle Young of Untapped New York.

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The M42 Secret Basement at Grand Central Terminal

Hidden thirteen stories under Grand Central Terminal sits a secret room called M42, which was kept off all maps and blueprints.

When German spies landed on Long Island in 1942, officials feared saboteurs might target the basement’s huge rotating converters…

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