The Old Penn Station That Got Torn Down Wasn’t Really So Great (Anymore)

“Its demolition is the stuff of New York legend, an act of architectural vandalism so unspeakable that it gave rise to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, saved Grand Central Terminal and upended the city’s development priorities. … [Yet] the Penn Station that was torn down between 1963 and 1966 was scarcely the building it had been a half-century earlier.”