waiting room

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Just as impressive—and easily missed in the station wings—is the 400-seat Grand Brasserie in the original beaux-arts waiting room of Vanderbilt Hall with 55-foot-high ceilings, swaths of marble and gigantic chandeliers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

“Patient passports” introduced by Dr. Al-Hashimi, the new chief attending physician, to improve people’s experience at the hospital became fans in the hot waiting room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Or you might enter directly from the street into an office, without the pacifying liminal space of a waiting room.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

A packed waiting room, doctors under pressure, mental health crises.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The battlefield roared to life on the television, and Moss laughed as Javier began to jump Tracer around the screen, shooting at every object in the waiting room he was stuck in.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro