24 Jun
2007
24 Jun
'07
8:27 p.m.
On Sunday 24 June 2007 22:14, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I found a fairly comprehensive site on the subway system a while back that
surprised me in many ways, full of all sorts of data, historical stuff,
etc. and realized that. But this wasn't the subway, it was the commuter
trains, which are somewhat further down.
It was also quite a large church, and fairly substantial, and set back from
the street a bit (St. Ignatius, if you're curious, at Park & 76th, if I'm
remembering right).
You couldn't ordinarily hear those trains while standing out on Park Ave., the
vents being in the middle of the street in that divider they have there.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I happened to wander into a church in Manhattan
one time several years
back (probably around 1976 or 1977 I'm guessing) and heard what at first
I thought was the trains running underneath Park Avenue, though that
also struck me as being pretty unlikely. Turned out they were installing
a new organ "system", and what I'd heard was them testing the 32'
pedal
stops!
Why unlikely? I have a buddy on the East Side, and I've heard the Lex
trains going by from his second floor apartment. They're not far
underground. Only a few feet.