The book of Night With Moon
“If you stand outside those brass-and-glass doors on Forty-second Street and peer in, down the ramp leading into the Grand Concourse, you can see the station's quiet nightlife— a couple of transit police officers strolling past, easygoing but alert; someone from the night cleaning crew heading toward the information island in the center of the floor with a bucket and a lot of polishing cloths for all that century-old brass. Faintly, the sound of rumblings under the ground will come to you— the Metro-North trains being moved through the upper- and lower-level loops, repositioned for their starts in the morning, or tucked over by the far-side tracks to be checked by the night maintenance crews. On the hour, the massive deep gong of the giant Accurist clock facing Forty-second strikes, and the echoes chase themselves around under the great blue sky-vault and slowly fade.
By five o'clock the previous day's dust will have been laid, the locks checked, the glass on the stores in the Graybar ...and Hyatt passageways all cleaned: everything done, until it's time to open again.MoreLess
By five o'clock the previous day's dust will have been laid, the locks checked, the glass on the stores in the Graybar ...and Hyatt passageways all cleaned: everything done, until it's time to open again.MoreLess
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