From: steveo@panix.com   
      
   John Levine   wrote:   
   >The LIRR started running trains from Jamaica to GCT yesterday.  Anyone tried   
   it yet?   
   >   
   >The pictures of the new councourse look pretty spiffy.   
      
   Yes, I went today. I took the LIRR from Brooklyn to Jamaica,   
   then from there to GCT.   
      
   I didn't take a ton of photos, but there are a few here   
   https://photos.app.goo.gl/nat61eAsVynvHuZXA   
      
   It took a long time -- maybe 10 minutes -- to get from the   
   platform to the main GCT waiting room. (One could speed it up a   
   bit by walking on the escalators, I guess.)   
      
   I did not take a photo of the long escalator, but it is long. At   
   the top of it is a mezzanine level of sorts, which was then a   
   long walk to GCT. (While I was on that intermediary mezzanine I   
   asked people who looked like MTA employees if we were still 10   
   miles underground and one replied, "maybe five."   
      
   The last photo is at one end of the dining concourse at GCT. So   
   even once you arrive there, it's one more story up to street   
   level. I did marvel a bit at that moment at the wonder of having   
   built all of that under Grand Central.   
      
   (Here's a good video that I just found...   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABVs-oLarg   
   )   
      
   P.S. It's not you, John, but I do know (in real life) jlevine@panix.com   
      
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