Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Sunday, 29 August 2004 
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I've known how to do this for years: now I have a word for it:
If you take the same route several times, figure out the quintessential New Yorker trick: prewalking. This means that while you are waiting for your train, walk to the place on the platform that gets you into the car that lets you out at the best place at your destination to make a quick exit (that is, right in front of the best staircase up to a Madison Square Garden entrance).
In my case, for my Saturday morning commute, it's standing at the pay phone on the East Falls Church platform; this puts me at the Metro Center escalator that connects to the Red Line trains for Friendship Heights. (It used to be standing at the newspaper recycling box, until the boxes got pulled "for security reasons.") The quote is from Randy Kennedy's story on the subway (not permanently linkable), one of several articles in the Times's guide for convention visitors. posted: 11:51:50 PM |
 D. Gorsline, Proprietor
   
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