Re: (rshsdepot) Borough Hall - Brooklyn Bridge

["David S. Rose" <lists_@_rosegremse.com>]

Well, I can't quite figure out from your description which entrance each of
you is talking about, but to me, the "main entrance to the 4&5 trains under
the Municipal Building" is the one shown in the following photo, and I would
probably have stood at the top of the stairs...

http://www.benstrawbridge.com/photo/buildings/centerstreet-subway.php

- -David


> From: Michael E Allen <ptrmgtsvc_@_juno.com>
> Reply-To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:21:20 -0500
> To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Subject: (rshsdepot) Borough Hall - Brooklyn Bridge
> 
> 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


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