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Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan.
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The exterior of Penn Station in 1911 Penn Station's interior in the 1930s One of few remnants of the original station still in use, a staircase between tracks 3 and 4. A small portion of Penn Station opened on September 8, 1910, in conjunction with the opening of the East River Tunnels, and LIRR riders gained direct railroad service to ...
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One Penn Plaza in May 2005 14 Penn Plaza in September 2013. Pennsylvania Plaza (Penn Plaza) is a complex of 14 buildings in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, including New York Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. [1] It is one of the busier transportation, business, and retailing areas in Manhattan.
The building's Beaux-Arts exterior resembles that of the original Penn Station; both buildings were designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. The 486,000 sq ft (45,200 m 2) complex was built to alleviate congestion in Penn Station, which saw 650,000 daily riders before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The $1.6 billion renovation ...
The building was made a New York City designated landmark in 1966 [6] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1] In 1982, the Penn Station post office was dedicated as the James A. Farley Building, in honor of the former Postmaster General who had expanded the building in the 1930s.
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced the construction of a hotel on Seventh Avenue in 1916, six years after completing the original New York Penn Station. The Hotel Pennsylvania was formally dedicated on January 25, 1919, and was originally managed by Ellsworth M. Statler of the Statler Hotels chain.