Holy Henry

Some smart sons of guns there at the Washington Post are republishing old (mostly '80s) stuff from Henry Allen, thank god.

Here are a few. Beware: Reading them all at once is like looking directly at the Ark of the Covenant.

Bus station: an urban elegy: The Greyhound station at 12th and New York closes today, and downtown Washington loses another monument to the common man.

The last bus scheduled to arrive tonight is the 11:40 from New York; the last to leave is the 11:50 for Atlanta, unless you count the New York bus continuing on to Roanoke at 12:01. Then Greyhound buses will go through the Trailways station that Greyhound bought in the disused nether world behind Union Station.

Closed. It's h…