Grand Central berths popular
NZPA-AP New York Now that railroad officials have opened Grand Central terminal to the homeless on cold nights, mystery vans are dropping off families at the station, the railroad police report.
Metro-North Commuter Railroad’s president, Mr Peter Stangle, said he did not know who had been making the runs, because the unmarked vehicles speed away before the police could reach the street to get their licence numbers.
The human deliveries began as word spread that the railroad had launched a new
service aimed at preventing deaths from exposure, Mr Stangl said. At his order, the terminal, which is run by the railroad, is left open all night and railroad police and porters train with a social worker in ways to help the poor, the disturbed, and the despairing who have been streaming through the doors. As many as 300 vagrants had spent the coldest nights of winter in the railroad’s main waiting room, which formerly was kept locked from 1.30 a.m. to 5 a.m., Mr Stangl said.
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