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A SECTIONAL VIEW 
Taken Across the Lobby and Waiting-Tfoom, and Showing the Stub Tracks and\the Loop for Suburban Trains 
South of this concourse are the waiting-rooms, 
with the restaurant adjoining. 
This concourse level is fifteen feet below 
the street level, and still lower is the tier of 
suburban tracks. The suburban tracks are 
reached by two twenty-five-foot stairways, 
which start from the ticket lobby and have 
an intermediate landing at the ievel of the 
express concourse. These stairways are for 
departing passengers only. At the south end 
of the suburban concourse are an incline and 
a stairway, which discharge the incoming sub¬ 
urban passengers upon the sidewalk outside 
the building. There can be no mixing of 
incoming and outgoing crowds. The incom¬ 
ing express passengers are discharged by a 
twenty-five-foot stairway leading from the 
west end of the express concourse upon an 
arrival gallery, 40 x 160 feet, at Forty-third 
Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, by subways 
at Forty-third Street and Madison Avenue 
and at Forty-third and Lexington Avenue, and 
by a direct passage sent to tbe Rapid Transit 
Subway station on Forty-second Street. 
The plans, as studied, provide not only at 
present for a 43-track station, but for an en¬ 
largement in the future to a 51-track station 
without in any way disturbing or altering in 
the least any part of the structure. 
To the north of the concourse are the com¬ 
pany’s offices. The entrances are at the two 
corners of the building at Forty-fifth and 
Park Avenue. They are built around a large 
court, thus providing light for each office and 
permitting a strong natural light in the higher 
part of the train room. 
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