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		<title>The Brothel Five Levels Below the Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Central Depot, which sat across across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall from 1896 until its demolition in 1968, was a wonderful, massive gothic structure, covered in ornament and decoration which one doesn&#8217;t find much in today&#8217;s construction. It certainly isn&#8217;t found in its replacement, the City Centre Square building, a long rectangular affair, completed in 1972. Below the glass and brown brick-covered box, the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) has its Ludlow Plaza Station, the only remnant of the old depot. It&#8217;s one of the nicer stops in the subway system, with some of the old architectural details still showing through slight neglect mandated by tight budgets over the decades. Central Depot was the showpiece of the of the Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line, a regional railroad that did very well with both passenger and freight transport during this city&#8217;s booming industrial age. As such, the railroad&#8217;s offices were located on the upper five floors of the massive limestone edifice to transportation. The first two floors were dedicated to the grandly-designed passenger concourse and two levels of tracks were located below, which are now used for CSTA subway and regional light rail. But few know about the levels which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code 54 &#8211; Possible Body on the Tracks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No light rail or subway dispatcher in this city ever wants to get a Code 54, but that&#8217;s just what City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) officials received when the 314 Orange Line local hit, then ran over what appeared to be &#8220;skeletal human remains&#8221; just past the Vespid Avenue stop Monday afternoon. The driver was virtually inconsolable, according to those on the scene, and passengers in the front car were understandably upset, as were thousands of other subway riders, when the incident caused delays up and down both the Orange and Brown lines. After questioning by authorities, the front car (it being a potential crime scene) was detached from the rest of the train and the passengers were ushered into more rearward cars and taken back to the Vespid Avenue platform, then upstairs to emergency buses which were trying to take up the transit slack. Police began their investigation of the scene. Was it a hobo who&#8217;d wandered into the tunnel long ago? That kid who was rumored to have disappeared while playing Dungeons and Dragons in the subway system in the 1970s? As soon as the &#8220;skeletal human remains&#8221; were recovered from underneath the train, however, it became clear that [...]]]></description>
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