Look up in the Main Concourse and you’ll see 2,500 painted stars — arranged backwards. The official story: the ceiling shows the heavens from God’s perspective. Whether that was design or the most elegant cover-up in New York history is a debate our guides love to fuel.

This is where our tour ends, and it ends big: the whisper gallery outside the Oyster Bar where a murmur crosses thirty feet of crowd, the brass clock worth millions atop the information booth, and the story of how Jackie Kennedy Onassis saved the whole building from the wrecking ball.

This is stop 05 of five on our free Midtown walking tour — about two hours, 1.5 easy miles, and completely free. You pay whatever you feel the experience was worth at the end.