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Penn Station Still A Congested Hellhole

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.17.2013 | New York
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NEW YORK — The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena....

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What You Don't Know About This Iconic Train Station

Michael Davis | Posted 03.12.2013 | HuffPost Home
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Michael Davis

Architecture can be pretty powerful.

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CHAOS: Penn Station Suspends Service On One Of Busiest Travel Days

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com | Posted 11.21.2012 | New York
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Just in time for the Thanksgiving-eve getaway, all service into and out of Pennsylvania Station – including Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and Long Isla...

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The Fight For The Old Penn Station

The New York Times | Posted 10.01.2012 | New York
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By David W. Dunlap The architects Peter Samton and Diana Goldstein can tell you exactly where they were a half century ago, at 5 p.m. on Aug. 2, 19...

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PHOTOS: When Penn Station Was Beautiful

Posted 05.11.2012 | New York
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Penn Station wasn't always a claustrophobic, cement labyrinth of chain stores and lost tourists. The original Penn Station was a towering and grand en...

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15 Penn Plaza: The Great Giveaway

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Henry J. Stern

No one less well connected than the Vornado Realty Trust (owner of numerous major properties, including Bloomberg Tower) could play the system with such success and gain an unprecedented blank check.

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Zero Destruction

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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Norman MacAfee

Perhaps someone who reads this will help me do the math on the environmental effects of pointless destruction. What are the effects on global warming of a policy of unthinking destruction?

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