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Article: New York's Penn station rises again from the rubble
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 6, 1998
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FEW acts of urban vandalism equalled the razing of Pennsylvania
Station, a neo-classical masterpiece, in Manhattan 35 years ago. The
city has been feeling the guilt ever since. Now, it is seizing a
chance to make amends.
The old Penn Station is gone for good. Chunks still lie among the
rushes in marshland across the Hudson River in New Jersey. What
passes as Penn Station today is a low-ceilinged, subterranean warren
beneath Madison Square Garden. It was to make way for the Garden
that the old Penn was demolished.
Across Eighth Avenue from the Garden, however, is New York's
General Post Office Building. A splendid structure of sweeping steps
and marching columns, it evokes the Station that ...