Tuesday: Headin` to the Center and Fixin` My Soul

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Tuesday I ditched work at a reasonable time and went to Grand Central station. And boy is it impressively big. Lots of shopping on some corridors, lots of trains on others, and a big food concourse down below.

It has a neat layout, and the way traffic flows around it is quite interesting. The tunnels into a building you see here gradually get raised a good twenty feet above the ground and then go around the top level of grand central, merging on the other side and then coming back to earth. Meanwhile, traffic goes in a wider berth around the base. I guess it's not unlike an airport, but on a much smaller scale made more complex by the density of the city.

That was basically it for the excursion (because I left late and it was getting dark). I did get some nice pictures of the ornate Fred F. French building, including some interesting ones of the building reflected in the one across the street.

Then I headed out for food. On the way, I passed the Trattoria that I ate at twice (once by myself and once with my aunt and uncle) and snapped a picture. Then took a bunch of pictures from the center of Times Square attempting to get a good panorama shot. It was really hard because so many people and cars keep passing, it'll be tough to join the pictures. We'll see how it goes when I try it.

To end the day, I grabbed some decent enough bbq at Soul Fixins and headed home (to discover my apartmentmate's husband and fellow film students were just finishing up filming a fake porno).