NJ Transit’s Brand New Entrance

Monday, Aug 31, 2009 2:54pm | COMMENTS (13)

No more mingling with the Long Island riffraff when you’re running to board your Montclair train in Penn Station — unless you want to. As of this morning, NJ Transit now has an entrance of its own at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 31st Street.
Speaking of Penn Station, interesting to see “Mad Men” revisiting the demolition of the beautiful old Beaux Art Penn Station this season. Sure don’t make them like that anymore, do they? Of course it was the character Paul Kinsey, who we learned last season was a denizen of Montclair, who was disgusted by plans to tear it down.

13 Comments

POSTED BY MellonBrush | August 31, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
I always felt like one of the ‘legion of the damned’ as I ascended and descended that horrid staircase at the main entrance to Penn Station. I’m amazed they spent almost 20 million dollars for an entrance for NJT. That’s terrific. If I wind up working in MidTown again, I won’t the experience anticipatory dread of using the main entrance.
POSTED BY Nellie | August 31, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
The one thing I did like about that staircase when I worked in New York were the smells coming from Zaro’s at the bottom of the steps and luscious-looking cakes and pies in the display case.
POSTED BY MellonBrush | August 31, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Nellie, I remember those enticing aromas. If not for them, the odor of that damnable entrance would have been intolerable.
POSTED BY Git2itGal | August 31, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
My coworkers will be so bummed. It’s hard to justify a trip to Kripsy Kreme back in the bowels of the station with this new entrance in the complete opposite direction.
POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle | August 31, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
I avoid Long Island riff raff whenever possible.
I see some folks near the LIRR platforms who think that leisure suits and Lionel Richie mustaches are still happening.
POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle | August 31, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
Nellie,
you know I like many of your posts, but (and I’m sure it’s just me and my Virgo Ascendant and Mars in Virgo) the Zaro’s smell always made me feel nauseous.
I prefer the smell of fresh blacktop myself. It reminds me of the Asbury Park boardwalk of my childhood.
But my favorite is a tie between dill and cilantro.
POSTED BY MellonBrush | August 31, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
My favorite smell is freshly ground coffee.
In 1969-70 I worked at the Brookdale A&P. Whenever the ‘dinger’ at the coffee section went off, it meant that a customer wanted to have some A&P coffee ground. We’d (staff) all race over, trying to be the first one there so we could smell the amazing aroma of freshly ground coffee. This was 10 years before I actually started to drink the stuff too.
POSTED BY MellonBrush | August 31, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
Krispy Kreme, ‘gaaaack’ – they put waaaaay. too much sugar in those doughnuts. Plus – to get there – you had to pass the ‘Booyah’ man, an unfortunate, dressed in rags, who would yell ‘Booyah’ at the top of his voice in a highly successful attempt to startle the commuters as they hurried to make their trains.
POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle | August 31, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
That’s a great smell, too, MB2.
When I was a kid in Manhattan and Queens, my mother insisted on A&P’s 8 O’Clock Coffee, but sometimes A&P Bokar Coffee (it came in a black bag).
She never liked the third choice, A&P’s Red Circle Coffee.
She had them grind it in the store, for the drip setting, and I watched them grind it, and then, watched my mother make it the next morning.
POSTED BY Nellie | August 31, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
I, too, love the smell of freshly ground coffee.
POSTED BY State Street Pete | September 01, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Coffee is my favorite too, and was years before I drank it. Loved the A&P grinder too.
I also like the smell hot butter in a pan and banana, pumpkin and/or zuccini bread baking.
POSTED BY Brooke | September 01, 2009 @ 9:09 am
You guys are making me hungry!
POSTED BY Brooke | September 01, 2009 @ 9:10 am
Well, and thirsty too – time for the morning Dunkin Donuts run!

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