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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 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 ...
Entering the Hall from Penn Station. Moynihan Train Hall occupies part of the James A. Farley Building, a Beaux-Arts structure designed by McKim, Mead & White alongside the original Penn Station, and opened in 1914 as New York City's main post office. [2]
In 1982, the Penn Station post office was dedicated as the James A. Farley Building, in honor of the former Postmaster General who had expanded the building in the 1930s. [8] [59] Known for being the supreme Democratic Party boss of New York State, [60] Farley was responsible for Franklin D. Roosevelt's rise to the U.S. presidency. [61]
These locomotives, with the exception of I1sa #4483 which is on display at Hamburg, New York, are now at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. In sharp contrast, the New York Central's President, Alfred E. Perlman, deliberately scrapped all but two steam locomotives, [61] with the older one (L2d) surviving only by ...
Railroad Penn Station (1910–present) Grand Central (1871–present) Hoboken (1863–present) Exchange Place (1834–1961) Communipaw (1864–1967)
34th Street–Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station (A, C, and E trains) 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station (1, 2, and 3 trains)
The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.