What did second avenue do to you?

>Aren't train stations supposed to be places where people are in motion (going in or out), and not necessarily hanging around?

With the headways on some routes if you miss your train off peak it can be an hour or more until the next one.

>I get waiting for a train, but there's lounges for that.

Penn Station has a lounge for Amtrak customers not for NJ Transit and LIRR riders.

I lived in Philly for 5 years, so I’m familiar. It slows most people down, but there’s always those people.

Setts require more maintenance than asphalt?

You mean touring.

Aren't Calatrava buildings expensive to maintain as well?

I like the WTC station though. However, I like the original design that opened on nice days better.

The worst redesign was 1 WTC. The original accepted design looked great. The shard with garden levels at the top. What was built is one of the ugliest buildings in the skyline.

Come to Philly, where people drive their challengers 60mph over cobblestones

Any idea when the original roads were covered and when the original road was first laid down? I'm really curious about how old those stones are. They could easily be 150 years old.

Was just about to say this, they're setts. *pushes glasses up nose*

What's really sad is that they milled down all the corners at 193rd so now it's a struggle to get a stroller up the curb with all the rough terrain.

Just make sure to keep the McDonald’s

Looks like the cover of "Physical Graffiti"....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti

*speading

Whatever, just build more of them. NYC Parks don't even get 1% of our budget and then provide a MASSIVE public service to every neighborhood. Give them more money and build more public bathrooms!

Honestly that what I thought when I read it. Of course it's nonsensical.

I'm not sure about that. Here's that famous light picture

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/grand-central-terminal-facts

There's too many people coming and going to have benches in the way.

Good for them. Don’t have time to read the article, but I’m guessing they are now raising the dead? Necromancy is really an untapped market.

Truth

Yea there are some, but for every one good both agent there are 20 who do less than the bare minimum.

For as long as I can remember going to Grand Central (30ish years) there have never been benches in the main hall. Only place to ever sit would be downstairs in the food area, or the restaurants upstairs.

So many haters. This looks amazing and 1,000 times better than the sht hole today

Sure, fine. I'm all for the evolution of both language and sensibilities. But...

>In an internal memo, parks department officials announced that any reference to “comfort station” will be replaced with “public restroom” or “public restroom building,” effective immediately, as part of a “conscious effort to champion and support human dignity.”

That made me laugh, because I swear, this is what we do best: performative actions that merit a press release but don't concretely address anything. You want to "champion and support human dignity," reopen all park and subway restrooms, build many, many more public restrooms, and staff them properly. Then the delivery driver that I saw pissing onto the curb a while ago would have other, more dignified options.

If we didn’t mill before paving, the streets would be thiccc

Wow that must be some intense touring, to wear (ware?) down the asphalt so much!

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