by Kilo Echo
Sadly, neither Alexander Cassatt nor Charles McKim lived to see the completion of Penn Station.
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They whistled at it, paraded in it, posed against it, and, for a few moments, forgot themselves. They came to instill civic pride in their kids and remind themselves of all that New York could be. And they left with the satisfaction that comes when your city does something monumental, and does it right.Sounds like something involving rail transit "for once was done right".
With its soaring expanses of glass and light, the new Moynihan Train Hall, which rises behind the colonnades of the Beaux-Arts James A. Farley Building across from Penn Station, has achieved the near impossible: It has left New Yorkers, 10 months into a harrowing pandemic, feeling transported and inspired...
Backshophoss wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:45 am NOW can we get rid of the mistake known as Madison Square Garden?And get rid of 2 Penn while we're at it.![]()