Sentence examples for base of the escalator from inspiring English sources

Instead, five days a week, he stands at the base of the escalator that leads into the subterranean supermarket, to greet customers and offer directions.

She was one of 63 singers, folk dancers, fiddlers, "funkternative" bands and others at the annual cattle call for Music Under New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority program that parcels out the 25 most lucrative spots, like the base of the escalator at Times Square.

Passing through Grand Central Station, I noticed a man shouting into the crowd at the base of the escalators.

You'll see what may be the origins of the "stand on the right" mantra here: the base of the old escalators were slanted so, to avoid a tumble, wise travellers kept still, ready to step carefully off with their right foot first.

A yellow chest-high railing now separates the tracks from the platform at the base of the most congested escalator.

Stand on the right of the escalator.

Stand on the right side of the escalator.

A huge Alexander Calder-designed mobile decorates the central atrium and a disco-lit tunnel with a moving sidewalk delivers little feet to the base of the Cascade Waterfall -- falling water and an escalator are preschool pleasers.

Escalators, forming a dramatic diagonal at the base of the space, would move visitors up from the open areas beneath the museum into the building's heart.

"We believe this will increase the capacity of the escalators as more people will be able to board, preventing queuing at the bottom of the escalator".

Xiang Liujuan fell through the top platform of an escalator, throwing her two-year-old son to safety before falling into the mechanism of the escalator and dying.