RHIANNON: Here we are in Vanderbilt Hall. This used to be a waiting room for first-class passengers on the train. Now it’s a dining and event space, and during holiday season, it’s the home of the Grand Central Holiday Fair, the longest running indoor holiday market and the best place in town to shop for gifts. Look closely and you’ll see many traces of the past. Can you spot the acorns and oak leaves above the doorways along the south walls? Look up at the bare-bulb chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. When Grand Central Terminal was built, electricity was the big technological innovation of the day. Leaving the electric bulbs of the chandelier exposed was making a bold statement – it was New York Central Railroad and the Vanderbilt family’s way of announcing that they were on the cutting edge of this new “age of energy.” Look at the floor to see the traces of where the benches once were, where first-class passengers waited. GEORGE: There's a lot of wear and tear here in the terminal. And the wear and tear isn't always bad. Where the old benches used to be placed, when they were replaced, they replaced the flooring under those benches with a different hue, a darker hue of the Tennessee pink floor. That was to show future generations that in these locations, there used to be something – even if they don't know that there were benches, they're clearly marked. And even in front of those dark spaces, the floor also has a little bit of a dip, which had people sitting on the benches with their feet on the floor. They would get up and they would shuffle. And every time that would happen, a little tiny piece would just wear. And now there's these little dips, divots. RHIANNON: Like the rest of the terminal, this space requires the great dedication of many workers to keep it looking fresh. DANNY: When I come to work, I'm not just coming to work. I'm maintaining a landmark piece of New York. And to be able to walk out of here and turn around and look back and say, Okay, it's still there. We're doing an alright job. This was given to us a certain way and it's our duty to hand it over to the next generation, cuz it's been here a little over a hundred years. The average person works here 30 years, so we're like technically the fourth generation of workers here. So we want to see it go many more generations, especially, you know, with the amount of people that fought to keep it here.