He stepped down, closed the door, and began walking up the platform steps.
And up to the platform stepped his daughter, who graduated two years ago from Swarthmore.
A manta ray or, maybe, a humongous Tostito — in any case, a triangular platform, stepped and undulating, doing for Brooklyn Bridge Park sort of what the Boathouse does for Central Park.
Visitors climbed three steps up an A-frame ladder, and then took a long step onto a temporary wooden platform, stepped over the four-foot-high barrier onto another platform, and then down a ladder on the other side.
Huang couldn't have known that three hours later, he would witness one of Shanghai's worst disasters in recent years: a stampede on the viewing platform steps that would leave at least 36 people dead and 47 injured.
A chief credit officer for a financial firm, he often returns after the service's 8 p.m. closing time but carries a second set of keys for his GMC Suburban, which the attendant conveniently positions right by the well-lighted platform steps.
He was pacing from the edge of the platform, stepping forward to see if the train was coming, and stepping back near the entrance for Internet access.
This number is likely to rise as the platform steps in to capture sales where the larger stores cannot, appealing to shoppers not interested in navigating crowded stores, like myself (I'm tracking a package from Zara right now).
Unlike the platform steps of North station, the platform of South station had a ramp leading to an Anglican chapel at the northern end of the platform.
When one thing becomes 'too much', a new more simplified platform steps forward, it's a cycle we've seen time and time again.
