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Article: A CHRONICLE OF 4 YEARS UNDER GRAND CENTRAL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2001
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Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer -
Like countless tourists and rail commuters, Jamie Pastor Bolnick was both fascinated and repulsed by the homeless people who lived in the bowels of New York City's Grand Central Terminal and panhandled passers-by.
She wanted to understand what brought and kept them there.
For three years in the early 1990s, the journalist and author spent three days each week tape recording interviews with dozens of people who live in and around the Manhattan train station.
One woman in particular, Tina S., who called Grand Central home for four years between the ages of 16 and 20, captured Bolnick's imagination.
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