Come on out with the money, chairman - we all know you're in there

Spectator, The, Oct 11, 2003 by Fildes, Christopher

Above its station

My railway correspondent, I.K. Gricer, will be pleased to learn that the Waldorf Astoria Hotel still has its own station, somewhere in the basement. It was busy in the days when the hotel's more affluent customers had private railway carriages and, for that matter, owned railways. Now it has been dusted off for the President's benefit, with a train parked at the platform, in case he needs to get out of town in a hurry. One up to the Waldorf. The Plaza has a direct subway line to Goldman Sachs, but that - let us face it - is not the same thing.