ERA BULLETIN — MAY, 2018 The Bulletin Electric Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated Vol. 61, No. 5 May, 2018 The Bulletin MAJOR CHANGES COMING TO THE Published by the Electric Railroaders’ GRAND CENTRAL SUBWAY STATION COMPLEX Association, Inc. P.O. Box 3323 by Subutay Musluoglu Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 (Photographs by the author) For general inquiries, (Continued from March, 2018 issue) or Bulletin submissions, contact us at In the March, 2018 Bulletin, I described Two of them provided access to the mezza-
[email protected] the first round of capacity upgrades and as- nine level of the 42nd Street Shuttle. One was or on our website at erausa.org/contact sociated improvements that have been com- 317 Madison Avenue, which occupied the pleted at the Grand Central subway station southeast corner of the block and actually Editorial Staff: complex. It had been my intention to contin- had its main entrance on E. 42nd Street (this Jeffrey Erlitz ue by specifically focusing on the creation of author worked in the building from 2004-5), Editor-in-Chief new stairways and the reconstruction of the and within its lobby there was a stairway existing stairways between the mezzanine down to the subway. Next door to the east Ronald Yee nd Tri-State News and and the platforms of the Lexington Avenue was 51 E. 42 Street, which featured an off- Commuter Rail Editor Line. However, the situation in the station sidewalk entrance within its front façade. has been very fluid lately, with an unusually These two entrances were essentially one Alexander Ivanoff North American and fast pace of work resulting in stairways open- unit, since both stairways joined together on World News Editor ing and closing on short notice.