New York's Original Penn Station: The Rise and Tragic Fall of an American Landmark

The story of the spectacular and much-lamented train terminal whose destruction inspired a new passion for historic preservation. Includes photos.

In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grand as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan's infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world's most spectacular monuments.

Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels li...