Was that none other than the Money Honey–CNBC star reporter Maria Bartiromo–instructing me to watch the gap upon exiting the train? I first started hearing Maria’s voice late last week in Grand Central.

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Metro-North spokesman Dan Brucker said he didn’t know much about the campaign, that it’s “an LIRR deal.”

I love that Grand Central deems me–and all my fellow Metro-North riders–to be in that elite upper-six-figure CNBC demographic.

In truth, my cultural connection to the Money Honey isn’t CNBC but to a song a famously undernourished punk icon wrote for her. From Joey Ramone’s “Maria Bartiromo”: 

I watch her at the big board every single day
While she’s reporting you best stay out of her way
I watch her every day
I watch her every night
She´s really outta sight

Maria Bartiromo !