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Posted by Wallyhorse on Fri Jan 9 04:33:15 2015, in response to Re: Penn Station, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 7 14:43:07 2015. Even I agree, but I'm just looking at how it may very well have played out if they did in fact keep the old Penn Station.Fact was, though not on the level of Robert Moses by any means, Sonny Werblin was a huge player in the late 1960's, '70s and '80s. He was very influential as I remember in getting The Meadowlands Racetrack and (original) Giants Stadium built and he likely would have pushed to get a new arena built by the time the complex officially opened in the fall of 1976 for the Knicks and Rangers IF the old Madison Square Garden had simply been renovated during the mid-1960's and the one that replaced Penn Station had never been built because the old Penn Station was never torn down (that arena of course did eventually get built for the Nets that opened as the Brendan Byrne Arena in 1981). Given how many people care about sports, THAT would have been looked at much more negatively than Penn Station being torn down. Speaking of which, one reason there may not have been as much opposition leading up to Penn Station being torn down (as opposed to today) was noted by someone in a group I belong to on Facebook. As that person noted, many people back in the '60s were children of the Great Depression, and many of those looked at what we consider today as important architecture as depressing because of when they grew up, so many of them ripped such out and "modernized" it on those grounds. That to me was why it took tearing down Penn Station to make many realize what was being lost and why we now have the Landmarks Commission. |
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