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<\/a> Every now and then I come back to Joseph Brennan’s Abandoned Stations site<\/a> to see what’s new. Particularly of interest to SYWTBAW<\/em> readers will be the page that deals with the City Hall IRT station.<\/a> Though there are actually two City Hall “stations”, the other being a never-completed BMT facility,<\/a> this would have been the one where the dragon was — the descriptions in the text of the “high ceiling” and the curved platform make the identification clear. Granted, the way Nita and Kit reach the spot in the book is somewhat circuitous, and doesn’t necessarily match “reality”. (But then they were<\/em> in an alternate universe at the time, and one where things were unusually likely to be skewed.)<\/p>\n

An interesting side issue is that a street named for a relative of mine <\/a>is so very close…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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