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Lonely, lonely sits the city
that once was full of people.

I’m not sure our civil society is ever going to come back. If any Freeper had ever been in Grand Central Station before this insane Marxist disease panic, you would know that you really couldn’t have seen more than a few feet in front of you because of all the people rushing to and from trains, heading for work or for dinner, or even just passing through and talking and looking around. Busy, busy, talking, talking. I loved it.

They used to have dances here in Grand Central under Giuliani and you could dance or stand on one of the balconies at the side, get a drink and watch everybody dressed up and dancing (waltzes, fox trots, etc. - just old traditional dances, not twerking).

Now we have an empty space with silent, masked people. How the heck did this happen? And so fast?

In any case, thanks for the report. Family members who still live there have told me much the same . If you go to Soho or parts of Fifth Ave. it’s all smashed and boarded up, but they appear not to have messed with Midtown that much.

Nice post. Grand Central is probably my favorite place in the world. I've been working in NYC for years and I always ensure to take the "long way" through Grand Central either going to the office from my morning train or going to my train at the end of the day. I almost always think of Ayn Rand as well when walking through there.

I will never forget the evening of March 13, when I left my office and entered a nearly empty Grand Central. That was when I first realized how things were about to change. Little did I know that it would be over three months before I would see Grand Central again - and it would be just as empty, if not emptier.