New York Pennsylvania (Penn) Station - History, Remnants, etc.

The original 1911 Penn Station building designed by McKim, Mead, and White was torn down in 1963, but remnants of the structure still pop up all over New York and in places as far as Kansas City, from an LIRR parking lot to a New Jersey botanical garden. As the building was being torn down, preservationists and architectural salvagers saved the stone eagles that ringed the cornice, sculptures by Adolph A. Weinman, and other fragments. Pieces of infrastructure from the original building are still part of the station we use today. Deep below the historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine, inside the crypt, you’ll find another set of remnants from the former train station.