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A look back at Pennsylvania Station, a proud icon of the city - until its demolition
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For 54 years, railroad passengers would enter New York City in a triumphant and stately Pennsylvania Station. In the ’60s, it was razed. Here’s why.
A look back at Pennsylvania Station, a proud icon of the city - until its demolition
Mention the original Penn Station, and most New Yorkers simply sigh—resigned to the cold reality that in 1963 the city allowed a demolition crew to tear down the 1910 “Roman temple to transpo…
The huge terminal saw New York City and the country through different time periods, including both World Wars, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, after it opened in 1910.
For 54 years, railroad passengers would enter New York City in a triumphant and stately Pennsylvania Station. In the ’60s, it was razed. Here’s why.
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A look back at Pennsylvania Station, a proud icon of the city - until its demolition
Old Penn Station was demolished beginning in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden. The destruction of the beautiful building was heavily protested by those fighting to preserve its history.
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Pennsylvania Station, one of the largest public spaces in the world, opened in November 1910 to a crowd of 100,000 just waiting to see the architectural marvel
A look back at Pennsylvania Station, a proud icon of the city - until its demolition
For 54 years, railroad passengers would enter New York City in a triumphant and stately Pennsylvania Station. In the ’60s, it was razed. Here’s why.
new york city february 1960 leaving penn station part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf © the Nick DeWolf Foundation Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
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Passengers might actually want to get to the Penn Station complex early.
When the soaring ceilings and Doric columns of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station started to fall under the wrecking ball in 1963, architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a "monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance."
On the anniversary of the original Penn Station's 1910 opening, LIFE.com offers a number photos — many of which never ran in LIFE — shot by Walker Evans for a 1963 feature on America's vanishing architectural treasures.
“Elvis who?” Photographer Alfred Wertheimer recalls uttering that very qu...
For 54 years, railroad passengers would enter New York City in a triumphant and stately Pennsylvania Station. In the ’60s, it was razed. Here’s why.
On January 1, 2021 Moynihan Train Hall officially opened to the public, a new commuters’ wing catering to both Amtrak and Long Island Railroad train passengers at New York’s underground (and mostly unloved) Penn Station. To celebrate this big moment in New York City transportation history, we’re going to tell the entire story of Pennsylvania… Read More
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If you enjoyed our previous set of Farm Security Administration photos, no doubt you will enjoy the ones today, possibly even more so. Captured by Marjorie Collins, another one of the lesser-known FSA photographers, today's set of photos features New York's Pennsylvania Station. Taken about a year a
The original interior of New York's Penn Station as depicted in postcards.
On January 1, 2021 Moynihan Train Hall officially opened to the public, a new commuters’ wing catering to both Amtrak and Long Island Railroad train passengers at New York’s underground (and mostly unloved) Penn Station. To celebrate this big moment in New York City transportation history, we’re going to tell the entire story of Pennsylvania… Read More
Penn Station is getting much-needed renovation, but no amount of construction will bring back the bygone Beaux-Arts magnum opus of the 20th century.
Pennsylvania Station was torn down in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden in what the New York Times denounced as a ‘monumental act of vandalism’.
Book Synopsis In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station.Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For deca
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