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The Whispering Gallery

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on September 14th, 2009

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This has been in my notes forever, but I haven’t confirmed it.

Reportedly there’s an acoustical quirk in the vaulted gallery outside the Oyster Bar on the lower level of Grand Central Station. If you and a friend stand in opposite corners, as if being punished, you can carry on a whispered conversation that others can’t hear.

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