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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
At the time of the original Penn Station's completion in 1910, these tracks could fit 26 mail cars. There were three subsurface levels provided for mail transport within the building: a basement 18 feet (5.5 m) below street level, the tracks 50 feet (15 m) deep, and a trucking platform 72 feet (22 m) deep.
34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station (A, C, and E trains) 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) , a New York City Subway station ( 1 , 2 , and 3 trains)
Guest rooms started at the fifth story, above the roofline of the original Penn Station. [9] There were 17 stories of guest rooms, each of which contained a central corridor flanked by bedrooms. Each story contained an average of 125 rooms, and the larger rooms were generally concentrated in the western part of the hotel.
Lester C. Tichy (1905–1981) was a prolific 20th-century American architect and industrial designer.Tichy is perhaps best known for his association with the Pennsylvania Railroad, for which he created the infamous "Clamshell", an aluminum and steel canopy over the electronic ticketing area, in Penn Station’s Main Waiting Room in New York City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad had started demolishing Penn Station's original station building in 1963, [20] and over the following years, it was replaced with the current Pennsylvania Station, above which was built Madison Square Garden. [21]