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Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan .
The roadway above 42nd Street, which connects the two legs, is 40 feet (12 m) wide. [20] The portion of the viaduct immediately surrounding the terminal's building has a masonry balustrade with an additional metal guardrail. [4] There is a cast-iron eagle atop the balustrade where the western leg curves onto the connecting roadway above 42nd ...
The Moynihan Station project would expand Penn Station into the James Farley Post Office building across the street; the first phase, consisting of the west end concourse, opened in June 2017. [42] Ground for the second phase was broken in August 2017, [ 43 ] and Moynihan Train Hall opened in January 2021. [ 44 ]
IND Sixth Avenue Line (B D F <F> M ) at 42nd Street–Bryant Park, daytime only Port Authority Bus Terminal M34A Select Bus Service: 34th Street–Penn Station: all A C E September 10, 1932 [33] Penn Station: Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, and New Jersey Transit M34/M34A Select Bus Service: Chelsea: 23rd Street: local A C E
The Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn: Third Street Bridge: 1905 [10] 350 feet: Third Street: Ninth Street Bridge: 1999 [10] 700 feet: Ninth Street: Vertical Lift Bridge Ninth Street Bridge, spanning Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn: Culver Viaduct: 1933 [12] 0.6 miles trains: passes over the Ninth Street Bridge, carrying 4 tracks, 2 express ...
The exterior of Penn Station in 1911 Penn Station's interior in the 1930s One of few remnants of the original station still in use, a staircase between tracks 3 and 4. A small portion of Penn Station opened on September 8, 1910, in conjunction with the opening of the East River Tunnels, and LIRR riders gained direct railroad service to ...
[115] [156] Shortly after Grand Central Madison opened, a reporter for Gothamist wrote that transferring from there to the Grand Central–42nd Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4, 5, 6, and <6> trains) took 10 to 12 minutes on foot via escalators, roughly the same amount of time it took to travel from 34th Street–Penn Station ...
In 1919 the ramp to the Park Avenue Viaduct around Grand Central Terminal was built directly above the northern streetcar ramp, which sloped upward from a portal north of 40th St to street level at 42nd St. In 1935, streetcar service was discontinued and the tunnel was converted for roadway use.