Platform 3 baggage elevator sideways and inside right side up
Diagram shows baggage passageway under 31st St., partly under sidewalk.
Probably from upstairs office windows. The train would be visible outdoors in Manhattan, briefly, west of the Post Office.
From the diagram, hearses must’ve come down 7th & 31st ramp.
TIMZ, What do you mean “until 1991?” Amtrak still comes out there. Are you thinking of the Grand Central change over?
Would you happen to know where the nearest bathroom (or other good place to waylay somebody) to this entrance would have been?
It was 1933, right? Make something up. If your book sells a million copies not ten readers will be old enough to remember any different from what you tell them.
It may come to that, but I have a psychological compulsion to get historical details right.
I also need to know what ticket prices would have been for the Havana Special. I found a travel guide from the late 1930s that put the cost from New York to Key West at $60. I don’t know if it would have been more or less in 1933. The winter/spring of 1933 was the end part of the worst part of the Depression so there would have been less demand for rail travel, but ticket prices per passenger may have been higher since the cost of running the trains would have been spread over a smaller number of passengers.