From Penn Station to Ground Zero is approximately 3 miles, according to the measurements I got from Google Maps.
Federal Plaza is almost exactly 3 miles straight Downtown from Grand Central Station.
same as the ground miles
About 20 miles
It is 5 miles.
About 4.6 miles.
44 to 46 minutes by express Metro North train from Stamford Transportation Center to Grand Central Station.
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It's a little under 2 miles (3.22 kilometers), west on 42nd Street to 11th Avenue, and then south on 11th Avenue to 34th Street.
They are about 3.5 miles apart as the crow flies (meaning, if you were to draw an imaginary straight line between the two on the map). In road miles, it's about 4 miles, starting out from the Manhattan Bridge, where the intersection of Jay and Sands Streets are (Dumbo is an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass"), over the Manhattan Bridge, up the Bowery, and then up Park Avenue to 42nd Street (Grand Central is on East 42nd between Park and Lexington Avenues).
It is about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) from the southwest corner of Central Park to Ground Zero.
The walking distance is about 1.1 miles.
No, but you could drive something like a Panhard or Stryker wheeled fighting vehicle in. I would choose a Lenco Peacekeeper, mainly because the NYPD SWAT team has some and your character could just steal it out of a police motor pool. You'd have to drive a tank up from Fort Dix, which is 60 miles away, then navigate through the streets of Manhattan to get it to Grand Central Station.