Re: (rshsdepot) Unnamed JCRR Station makes the Times

["James Kelling" <james.kelling_@_nara.gov>]

Probably the former JC Terminal in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, though it doesn't have a dome.

>>> OldMaven_@_comcast.net 08/06/03 08:46AM >>>
From last Sunday's New York Times Magazine--Any idea what station they're
discussing?:

 ,      The unlikely story of a self-mythologizing pet-care mogul, an 
orchestra on the verge of collapse and 30 of the world's most 
valuable stringed instruments.

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03NJSYMPHONY.html 

Medici of the Meadowlands

New York Times Magazine
August 3, 2003
By MARK LEVINE

The tangled relationship of art, illusion and the marketplace being 
what it is -- an ongoing melodrama, set to the strains of keening 
violins -- it so happened that 250 tuxedoed, gowned and bejeweled 
members of the patronage class showed up for an Italianate palace 
ball one night this spring at a defunct train station in a Jersey 
City marsh. Guests were met at the gate by a young man in a pleated 
skirt, pointy black slippers and a frilly blouse under a gold 
brocaded vest, who bowed theatrically and said, "Buona notte, signori 
e signore." The title of the ball was Palazzo di Cremona, and the 
domed terminal of the Central Railroad of New Jersey was done up for 
the evening with garlands of citrus leaves and blood oranges. Three 
former governors of New Jersey were present, along with Paolo Bodini, 
mayor of Cremona, Italy, a 2,300-year-old town north of Milan. 


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