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Posted by Wallyhorse on Tue Sep 7 07:42:20 2010, in response to Re: Penn Station 100th Anniversary?, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Sep 7 01:28:53 2010. No question it was a classic station, but the problem was, as magnificent as it was, it had from what has been noted already altered quite a bit even before the main facade was torn down to make way for the current MSG and Two Penn Plaza. It also needs to be remembered that neighborhood would become quite seedy, especially at night for quite some time during the 1970's and '80s and probably would have been worse had the old Penn Station remained (especially with no MSG there, though of course, that has changed quite a bit in recent years).As noted in another post, MSG was going to need a new home anyway by the mid-'70s at the latest as the old MSG was quickly becoming obsolete by that point. That, and the mentality that was in place in the '60s is what doomed the original Penn Station. |
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