Ny moynihan penn station12/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Madison Square Garden rose as old Penn Station was slowly demolished. The AGBANY protesters including Philip Johnson and Jane Jacobs. The loggia, leading to the grand staircase, 1939 Museum of the City of New York New York Public LibraryĪ 1955 bar menu from the Penn Station restaurant/bar NYPL The view of the concourse from the Grand Waiting Room, 1939 Museum of the City of New York (Read more about the context of this extraordinary picture here.) Library of Congress 1936 - MCNY/Wurts Brothers MCNY/Berenice Abbott NYPL/Berenice Abbott The train concourse, 1911 1910 - Library of Congress/clean-up version ShorpyĪwaiting the arrival of preacher Billy Sunday. The Pennsylvania Station restaurant, found after one stepped through the arcade but before the waiting room. The corner of 31st Street and 7th Avenue, entrance to the south carriage entrance, 1914 Museum of the City of New York 1912- MCNY/Detroit Publishing Col ![]() We greatly appreciate our listeners and readers and thank you for joining us on this journey so far. Check them outand consider being a sponsor. If you’d like to help out, there are six different Watch a short video of us recording the show and talking about ourĮxpansion plans. We are now a creator on Patreon, a patronage platform where you can support your favorite content creators. Publishing, social media, live events and other forms of media. We’re also looking to improve and expand the show in other ways. We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every other week. _ The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. THE BULK OF THIS SHOW WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS EPISODE 254 - FEB 2018. Listen to the show here or on your favorite podcast player: PLUS: We show you where you can still find remnants of old Penn Station by going on a walking tour with Untapped Cities tour guide Justin Rivers. Should something so immense be saved because of its beauty even if its function has diminished or even vanished? Does the public have a say in a privately owned property? This is the story of an architectural treasure endangered - and a city unprepared to save it. Why was Penn Station destroyed? If you answered MONEY!, you’re only partially right. ![]() In this show we rebuild the grand, original structure in our minds - the fourth largest building in the world when it was constructed - and marvel at an opulence now gone. One scuttles in now like a rat.” Robert R McElroy/Getty Images As Vincent Scully once said: “ Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Since its destruction in the 1960s, the station has become something mythic, a sacrificial lamb to the cause of historic preservation.Īmplifying its loss is the condition of present Penn Station, a fairly unpleasant underground space that uses the original Pennsylvania Railroad’s tracks and tunnels. The original Penn Station, constructed in 1910 and designed by New York’s greatest Gilded Age architectural firm, was more than just a building. PODCAST Why did they knock down old Pennsylvania Station? Listen to PART ONE here - The Construction of Penn Station To celebrate this big moment in New York City transportation history, we’re going to tell the entire story of Pennsylvania Station and Pennsylvania Railroad over two episodes, using a couple older shows from our back catalog. On JanuMoynihan Train Hallofficially 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. ![]()
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