Today’s odd job: Invoking the awesome power of the internet in order to determine whether or not the closed and abandoned 86th Street Station on the commuter train line in to Grand Central could be used to gain access to the street above.
Our editor had queried this, since the stairs leading up from the old platform are covered at street level by secure hatches.
We eventually found a photo reference showing one of the hatches standing open, with the panic bar on the underside clearly visible. Victory!
(All this, in the service of about three paragraphs whose sole purpose is to get our protagonist from point A to point B without being spotted by the people who are watching for him at all the regular exits. But here as elsewhere, God is in the details.)
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