Re: (rshsdepot) Borough Hall - Brooklyn Bridge

[Paul Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

they may have been closed when they were cleaning the building I don't 
know, but that is the main entrance....the one near the bridge seems to 
me quite secondary

Michael E Allen wrote:

>I hope that somebody on this list can help resolve a friendly dispute
>with a favored grad student which has degenerated into "Men are not
>capable of following simple directions, Never mind ask for them."
>
>We were supposed to meet at the main entrance to the 4&5 trains under the
>Municipal Building. Having walked across that bridge probably hundreds of
>times during my student days in Brooklyn, in my mind that main entrance
>to 4&5 meant the plaza at the end of the bridge. To her it meant the
>stairs that are actually under the building.
>While I will concede that I should have heard "under the building" as the
>operative terminology, I was under the impression that those stairs had
>been closed off some time ago. They were open as of a week ago last
>Thursday with quite a bit of iron fence in place.
>
>So my question to some of the veteran New Yorkers on this list is:  Is my
>memory correct here or should I just plead stupidity? (I may do that
>anyway)
>
>Thanks
>=================================
>The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
>railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>
>
>
>  
>
=================================
The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

------------------------------