Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Sunday, February 10. 2013

Grand Central Station (Terminal) opened 100 years ago this week

Congratulations! You Have Arrived at the Greatest City on Earth.


500,000 rail passengers move daily through that remarkable two-level space. That's a lot, but it will be more when the Long Island Railroad's new underground construction is complete (LIRR now only goes to Penn Station out in the West Side hinterlands). It was brilliant to put those tracks underground up to 96th St., thus creating upper Park Avenue and its now-insanely valuable real estate.


This ol' country boy still loves NYC. In my youth, I greeted so many gals and pals at that station, coming or going, that I feel nostalgia whenever I am there. Adventure. It looks and feels far better now, but that musty old train station smell is the same.


My pic of the Grand Central Market. Good stuff for prosperous commuters
to pick up on the way home. Excellent cheese and fish stalls.


Posted by Bird Dog in History, Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:34 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

It is also wonderful how efficient Grand Central Station is.

Especially when compared to Penn Station which can be a nightmare to navigate through. NJ Transit and LIRR often don't know which track to put a train on until 5 minutes before it is scheduled to leave causing a "mad dash" by commuters to catch their train. If you've ever been standing by track 12 when they announce that your train is leaving on track 1 in less than 5 minutes you know what I mean - Lord, how I hate Penn station NY.

One day a co-worker and I (who also commuted through Penn Station) went over to Grand Central during lunch time to view an exhibit. And, isn't it wonderful that Grand Central has the room for exhibits?! While the exhibit was good, what amazed us both was "hey look, it is only 1 in the afternoon and they already have trains and tracks listed for 5 this evening!!!"

Let's hope that they can keep that efficiency when they add LIRR.

P.S. I do wonder about that claim of 500,000 people moving through the station daily. Wikipedia has only 140,000 for Grand Central and 300,000 for Penn Station.
#1 Charles on 2013-02-11 07:16 (Reply)
They mighyt be including the Station's subway stops too.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2013-02-11 07:31 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.