v3.0 - 06/16/17

Changes:





* Raised Facade by 2 meters

* Removed Escalator in the Main Waiting Room

* Added circa 1950's newsstand in the Grand Concourse

* Added benches in the Grand Concourse

* Edited shape of semicircular windows

* Fixed width of Driveway entrances in the Main Waiting Room

* Fixed lighting in Men's and Women's Waiting Rooms

* Added IND subway entrance at SE 8th Avenue & 33rd Street corner of Penn Station

* Redid sidewalk widths for greater accuracy





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(Made by Otherwise, everything's going to look really off.(Made by NJDaeger ).

NOTE: If you do not spawn next to the station, it can be found at coordinates: (-467, 36, 580). I highly recommend you use a command block if you are playing on singleplayer.



﻿Do not reupload , modify , or redistribute any part of this map and project. You cannot claim this to be your own work and I grant you no permission to use any of the map's elements in your own work.







Historical Background Info:



New York's original Penn Station was a Beaux-Arts building constructed by the architectural firm,



The railroad station served the The Pennsylvania Railroad ) that owned Penn Station was losing money, and in an attempt to save the PRR from bankruptcy, the above-ground portion of the station was sold and demolished to make way for what is now Madison Square Garden. Its demolition led to public outcry and protests from many architects, although nothing could be done to save the station.





A crowd protests outside the building, hoping that the historical building would be saved.



Many people criticizing the demolition made notable remarks, such as Vincent Scully, who once said:







An architecture critic working for the New York Times also wrote:







54 years later, these words are still moving.



The demolition of a station many considered to be one of the greatest works of public architecture ultimately led to the movement of architectural preservation in the United States. Two years after its demolition,having nearly suffered the same fate as its neighbor across town, Grand Central Terminal was designated a New York City landmark. Were it not for the loss of Pennsylvania Station, many more historical and culturally significant buildings would have been laid to waste by the wrecker's ball.

New York's original Penn Station was a Beaux-Arts building constructed by the architectural firm, McKim, Mead & White . Having opened in 1910, the station finally provided direct rail travel to & from New York City. Passengers no longer had to transfer to a ferry from Long Island City or Hoboken, which would bring them across the river into Manhattan.The railroad station served the Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island Railroad for several decades. It was most heavily used during World War II, a time when tens of millions of passengers used the station. Pitted against a booming auto industry and the beginning of the Jet Age however, railroad service was beginning to dwindle. In the 1950's, rail travel suffered a significant decline as more people traveled by car or plane. With the railroad industry doing poorly, the company () that owned Penn Station was losing money, and in an attempt to save the PRR from bankruptcy, the above-ground portion of the station was sold and demolished to make way for what is now Madison Square Garden. Its demolition led to public outcry and protests from many architects, although nothing could be done to save the station.Many people criticizing the demolition made notable remarks, such as Vincent Scully, who once said:An architecture critic working for the New York Times also wrote:54 years later, these words are still moving.The demolition of a station many considered to be one of the greatest works of public architecture ultimately led to the movement of architectural preservation in the United States. Two years after its demolition,having nearly suffered the same fate as its neighbor across town, Grand Central Terminal was designated a New York City landmark. Were it not for the loss of Pennsylvania Station, many more historical and culturally significant buildings would have been laid to waste by the wrecker's ball.

More Photos and Side-by-Side Comparisons





Bird's-eye view of Penn Station.

The grand, four-story tall facade of Pennsylvania Station on Seventh Avenue, flaunting its colonnade of Doric columns.

Seventh Avenue Facade. View from corner of 31st Street & 7 Av.

Light streams in to the Main Waiting Room of Penn Station, a breathtakingly spacious space inspired off of the Roman Baths of Caracalla.







A shot of the entire concourse. Above is Penn Station's iconic glass dome. The 33rd street entrance is visible at the other end.

The massive, glass-domed Concourse of Pennsylvania Station, where light once streamed in during the day to illuminate the spacious waiting area. The base of Madison Square Garden now occupies this once magnificent view inside the razed building. (Left c. 1910 ; Right, c. 1963)

View from Track 4 in the Main Concourse. Platforms and tracks are visible.

Looking above the tracks.

Taxi Driveway. Arched bridge to the Waiting Room is seen nearby.











Penn Station, corner of Eighth Ave & Thirty-First Street. View looking Southeast.









Pennsylvania Station's Eighth Avenue entrance, slightly smaller than its Seventh Avenue counterpart. The image on the right shows it being demolished around 1964.







TBA (It takes a while to render spaces with many light sources, though the platforms remain largely unchanged since their construction in 1910).



﻿Penn Station's Demolition (1963 - 1966)





The Grand Concourse is demolished. Only a few of its steel arches are left standing. Soon, these too will be razed.









Demolition takes place inside the Main Waiting Room. Columns are taken apart.

Dust & debris collect at the floor of the Main Waiting Room, as it is demolished.





Aerial view of demolition.





By the mid-1960's only the Seventh Avenue facade of the original Penn Station is left.

The structure of Madison Square Garden can be seen in the background.





The current Penn Station









Amtrak Concourse. Formerly the Main Waiting Room of the complex. The escalators and stairs still remain in the same place.

Departure Board inside the waiting area. Formerly the Grand Concourse. A very claustrophobic area, given its low ceilings and the large crowds here.









Then & Now

A dull view of one of Penn's low-ceiling passageways.



We lost that for this? Hmph.



We lost that forHmph.

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