This is not good news for those of us who wanted to walk through the new Pennsylvania Station in our lifetimes. Looks like we’ll have to be content with traversing the basement of a hideous 1960’s Post Modern eye-sore:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aP4sJWEIWY1k&refer=us
“Lead us not into PennStation, but deliver us from evil…”
Jon [8D]
Just to clarify what city are you talking about?
The PennStation in NYC was demolished in 1963, and that was what helped to stop some other stations from the wrecking ball.
Lee F.
For the past ten years there has been a move afoot to convert the Farley Post Office Building into a new Penn Station. The Farley PO straddles the Penn Station platforms, and is located one block west of Madison Square Garden. It was designed by the same architectural firm as Penn Station to echo its neighbor:
Eventually, like all projects in New York, it took on the size and scope of a real boondoggle, complete with a politicians name: “The Daniel Patrick Moynahan Transportation Center”, and the complete razing of MSG, a bizarre glass wall thingy jutting up from the classic architecture, and the building of another MSG over the West Side Rail Yards.
Jon [8D]
Maybe you can convince the re-united Led Zepplin band to fly over hear and do a fund raising concert.