From: grammatim@verizon.net
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 3:51:59 PM UTC-5, Steven M. O'Neill wrote:
> 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."
Is it a single humungous escalator like at the Roosevelt Island
station? (Anyone remember the World's Longest Escalator at
the US pavilion at Expo '67?)
I wonder whether all those retailers expect to succeed with a
passing crowd of just commuters twice a day.
That long, long walk must be from Park to Madison, and then
up to 46th? Access only to the Terminal, and not to the street?
> 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.
WNYC's Steven Nessen said something about one of the restaurants
having converted from popular to upscale.
> (Here's a good video that I just found...
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABVs-oLarg
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