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Category Archives: Vanderbilt Hall
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 after a 12 day break even … Continue reading
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‘Uniqlo’ Short For ‘Unique Typo’
Grand Central, Vanderbilt Hall, en route to 42nd Street and Pershing Square. Garbage can promoting launch of Uniqlo store is wrapped in paper showcasing the cities of the world. One of its largest, with nearly 20 million people, is misspelled. … Continue reading
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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 extra minute to your walk to the … Continue reading
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Newest ‘Light’ Truck From Range Rover
I generally try to avoid helping the marketing efforts of those who set up shop in Grand Central and look to woo the tastemakers, big spenders, and other masters of the universe who traipse through its gilded halls each day. … Continue reading
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Bermuda or Bust
Some pretty substantial delays on the ride in this morning. We crawled through central Westchester before the conductor got on the horn and told us everything was a bit slow, due to signal problems below 125th Street–perhaps the Bronx Zoo … Continue reading
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Beware the Christmas Creep
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christma– Wait, no it isn’t. Today’s forecast calls for “an abundance of sunshine,” says the NY Times, while tomorrow calls for “another sunny day with light breezes and a pleasantly mild afternoon.” Temps? … Continue reading
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If You See Something, Say Nothing, Or, The Band Played On
I got to Grand Central yesterday with my usual 90 seconds to make my train; Metro-North has been good enough to put my northbound trains on Track 29 this week. Thanks, guys. I lamented not having more time, as Vanderbilt … Continue reading
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Christmas Carol Train Hits Grand Central
A train hyping the new Disney film “A Christmas Carol” hits Grand Central later this week. The train started in Los Angeles and has been making its way east since May, enticing children in some 40 cities to beg their … Continue reading
Commemorating ‘The Commodore’
There’s a new bio out about Cornelius Vanderbilt, the man who built the original Grand Central Terminal and amassed a fortune buying up railroads. “The First Tycoon”, written by T. J. Stiles (no relation to another notable scribe, TJ from … Continue reading
Gaultier Grabs GCT Squash Title
The Tournament of Champions squash smorgasbord in Grand Central has come to an end, and Frenchman Gregory Gaultier–picked in these very cyber-pages to win–owns the TOC trophy. It took Gaultier 62 minutes to off Englishman Nick Matthew, but he did … Continue reading