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Old Posted Oct 29, 2011, 11:25 AM
alphachap alphachap is offline
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Pennsylvania Station 1910-1963

" But beyond that, it gives the station a visible presence as well, something that it lost when the original was demolished."

For those who don't know about the original, see this:
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16934

"Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves.
Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean.
We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture.
And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed."

- "Farewell to Penn Station," New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963 (as found on nyc-architecture.com)
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