by Yellowspoon
I visit NYC about once a year. Here's my list of questions from this visit:
At 34th street and 7th avenue (northbound), I waited to talk to the station attendant. The woman in front of me wanted to get to some station on the green line (I assume upper East Side). The station agent advised Woman to (A) walk to 6th Avenue, (B) take an uptown train (N, R, or W (?)) thence (C) transfer to the 4/5/6 at 59th street. Wouldn't it have been faster to take the 1 to Times Square, thence the S to Grand Central, thence the 4/5/6 to her destination? When I suggested this to the station agent, he looked at me as if to say, mind-your-own-business. (Being a tourist, I shut up)
At Times Square, #1 track southbound, north end, there's a white flashing light as the train enters the station. Whatzit mean? Halfway down the platform is a red-over-white signal. What does that mean? (I know what the red-over-red signal at the south end of the station is for?
At Grand Central, on the south shuttle track (where Popeye played cat-and-mouse in French Connection), sits a train with what appears to be yellow & red shelf paper with "UNI GLO" and "THE HEAT GENERATION" all over it. The train was not in use as a shuttle on Saturday evening. What is this?
I took the #1 to 225th street. I noticed the vertical-lift bridge over the Harlem River. Is this bridge ever lifted? Is the Harlem River navigable? The same could be said for the Metro-North bridge over the Harlem River.
Lastly, while not really a transit question: Due to some geographic anomaly, the 225th street station is in New York County (aka Manhattan), not Bronx County. Did they re-route the Harlem Rive at some point? If I had walked around the area, is the New York/Bronx county line definitively marked?
At 34th street and 7th avenue (northbound), I waited to talk to the station attendant. The woman in front of me wanted to get to some station on the green line (I assume upper East Side). The station agent advised Woman to (A) walk to 6th Avenue, (B) take an uptown train (N, R, or W (?)) thence (C) transfer to the 4/5/6 at 59th street. Wouldn't it have been faster to take the 1 to Times Square, thence the S to Grand Central, thence the 4/5/6 to her destination? When I suggested this to the station agent, he looked at me as if to say, mind-your-own-business. (Being a tourist, I shut up)
At Times Square, #1 track southbound, north end, there's a white flashing light as the train enters the station. Whatzit mean? Halfway down the platform is a red-over-white signal. What does that mean? (I know what the red-over-red signal at the south end of the station is for?
At Grand Central, on the south shuttle track (where Popeye played cat-and-mouse in French Connection), sits a train with what appears to be yellow & red shelf paper with "UNI GLO" and "THE HEAT GENERATION" all over it. The train was not in use as a shuttle on Saturday evening. What is this?
I took the #1 to 225th street. I noticed the vertical-lift bridge over the Harlem River. Is this bridge ever lifted? Is the Harlem River navigable? The same could be said for the Metro-North bridge over the Harlem River.
Lastly, while not really a transit question: Due to some geographic anomaly, the 225th street station is in New York County (aka Manhattan), not Bronx County. Did they re-route the Harlem Rive at some point? If I had walked around the area, is the New York/Bronx county line definitively marked?
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Last edited by Yellowspoon on Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:17 pm, edited 2 times in total.