The station spanned two city blocks, eight acres of land, stretching from Seventh to Eighth Avenue between 31st Street and 33rd Street.
domik001says
It’s a shame that they destroyed it to make way for MSG, which looks terrible imo.
PD1negativesays
RIP.
UltimateShamesays
Modern times often left beauty to the past.
NNScottsays
My understanding is that the air rights over those blocks became so valuable that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was financially hurting by that time, could not afford to keep it. The federal, state or local government would have had to pay them to keep the station, and there was no mechanism for doing that. TBH New Yorkers had spent the previous 100 years watching grandiose buildings being torn down because the land became valuable enough to justify something bigger on the site. What was different was that this time people actually began to think that wasn’t right.
dnadosanddonts says
The station spanned two city blocks, eight acres of land, stretching from Seventh to Eighth Avenue between 31st Street and 33rd Street.
domik001 says
It’s a shame that they destroyed it to make way for MSG, which looks terrible imo.
PD1negative says
RIP.
UltimateShame says
Modern times often left beauty to the past.
NNScott says
My understanding is that the air rights over those blocks became so valuable that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was financially hurting by that time, could not afford to keep it. The federal, state or local government would have had to pay them to keep the station, and there was no mechanism for doing that. TBH New Yorkers had spent the previous 100 years watching grandiose buildings being torn down because the land became valuable enough to justify something bigger on the site. What was different was that this time people actually began to think that wasn’t right.
southard39 says
Love those eagles.