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GCT’s Vanderbilt Hall Closed To Commuters This Eve
This is a public service announcement: If you, like thousands of others, enter Grand Central from the Pershing Square side (and you partake in Pershing Square Dancing from time to time), allow an...
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Bright Sun, Hot City
You are walking north on Park Avenue South, after a day of work at the magazine, toward Grand Central. It is 93 degrees in the shade, and there is no shade, as it’s Manhattan. All you can think about...
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Truck Struck! Hack Whacked!
I was strolling out of the 42nd Street exit at Grand Central, wondering what sort of freebies they might be giving away, because we Metro-North types are considered a Choice Demographic with...
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Pulp Friction
It’s been a fairly eventful few days in the typically fairly uneventful world of commuting. I was on the 5:46 out of Gotham Tuesday eve, an extraordinarily packed train making the return to commuting...
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What’s Up With That Guy?
He rides a pedicab in front of Grand Central. He does jumping jacks as he awaits a fare, because, presumably, pedaling fat-arse tourists around New York is not enough exercise. He keeps a pack of...
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Where Hawaiian Air Meets Pershing Square
So how lame is the Hawaiian Airlines signage covering the windows of Pershing Square Cafe? The restaurant has these gorgeous floor to ceiling windows (though, mind you, the view of the Altria building...
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Bricks Tumble Outside Grand Central, Somehow No One Hurt
If you’ve bought our New York Commuter’s Glossary, you know what the term is for the nexus of 42nd and Park Ave. South, where dangerous decisions are often made in the name of catching a soon to depart...
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Tractor Trailer Failure Damage Done
Here’s a shot of the damage wrought by the truck driver, Joe Hebert from Lower Slower Delaware (LSD) above Grand Central. You can see where Herbert took out a large swath of the ornamental concrete...
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Tangled Up in ‘Blue’
I’ve got about 90 seconds to get from Pershing Square to Track 107 for the 5:27. Some serious Pershing Square dancing is going on as we wait for the light to turn. There are a dozen of us waiting under...
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