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First NBC announces it's starting a 24-hour local NYC news channel yesterday--a possible competitor to NY1-- and now Matt Lauer is invading the turf of NYC TV's Kelly Choi by heading to the "secret subway station" under the Waldorf-Astoria!
In the Today's show "Access Granted"series, the Today show personalities are getting behind-the-scenes looks at private places (Meredith Vieira visited the Vice-President's mansion yesterday and Al Roker visited the Malstrom Air Force base on Tuesday). Today's segment is near and dear to the hearts of NYC transit geeks, who know about Track 61, off Grand Central's Metro North tracks.
The unused tracks were meant for guests with private train cars to enter the Waldorf Astoria hotel directly--a special perk for VIPs. This entrance was used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to discreetly enter the Waldorf-Astoria hotel without people knowing he had polio. The video segment is a good look inside, but for those wanting a little more information, Trainjotting has some more details, like how Andy Warhol held a party there!
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i'll be the first geek to say that that's just cool.
Kelly Choi is a more interesting than Matt Lauer...
Matt should have done the full secrets thing. He should have worn some crazy Matrix outfit, constantly put his hands in his pockets, referred to "my secret" every three minutes, and had a wacky useless mini media player.
kelly choi is a shinier dresser than matt lauer ;)
Cities of the Underworld did this about 6 months ago.
i'm so glad to see some love for kelly choi.
Least interesting secret of the GCT complex.
Even better are:
- The reversed ceiling.
- The abandoned stations between 96th and 42nd streets.
- The whispering gallery.
- The unused PATH train terminal sandwiched between the platforms for the 42nd Street Shuttle and the 7 train.
Oh, gag, Cities of the Underworld? About as crappy a show as you can image. Inside Grand Central covered it years ago.
Uh, "imagine," not image.
Kelly Choi looks like she got smashed in the face with a frying pan.
well. this is a total Toby von Meistersinger post, and he didn't do it..leading me to believe that he got the ol spanish archer.
el bow, YOU GOTTA GO!
bummer bro!
I'd totally "Bok" Choi.