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    PENN STATION EAGLE, PHILADELPHIA

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2024 6 comments

    THIS is one of 22 nearly three-ton eagles that appeared on Penn Station’s exterior, now in Philadelphia. Lorraine B. Diehl, in her comprehensive history The Late Great Pennsylvania Station, in her description…

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  • One Shots

    SLOANE BUILDING, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023 6 comments

    On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…

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  • Ads

    LOFTS FOR RENT, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023 3 comments

    HERE’S an ancient painted ad that has been there for many years and went unnoticed by me until was walking east on West 33rd Street and noticed it via an…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BACK AT THE HIGH LINE, AGAIN

    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023 9 comments

    I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…

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  • Neighborhoods

    NEW LIRR CONCOURSE, PENNSYLVANIA STATION

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2023 23 comments

    THE first Pennsylvania Station, which allowed passenger trains to arrive in NYC from across the Hudson and East Rivers, opened to the public in 1910. Prior to that, passengers needed…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FARLEY ABIDES AT THE MOYNIHAN

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2023 10 comments

    THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…

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  • Signs

    TRACK 16 SIGN, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2021 18 comments

    As Midtown commuters know, Penn Station has been a complete morass of construction, at least for Long Island Rail Road customers, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding the main…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    THE LOST MUSEUM, Penn Station area

    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2021 6 comments

    As you may recall, I did a through exploration of the former Farley Post Office and Daniel P. Moynihan Train Hall when it opened back in January. But I’ve recently…

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  • Subways & Trains

    MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh January 3, 2021 14 comments

    On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…

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  • One Shots

    FARLEY MARKETING STUDIO, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2020 2 comments

    The McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A monumental…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    34th STROLL

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2020 16 comments

    The summer of 2020 has been among the hottest in years, rivaling the ones I recall in 1988 and 1999. Nevertheless I was itching for a Manhattan stroll, as I…

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  • One Shots

    WEBSTER APARTMENTS, Penn Station

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2020 2 comments

    The Webster Apartments, an impressive brick 13-story building at West 34th Street and Dyer Avenue (the entrance ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel) has provided affordable accommodations for NYC’s “working girls”…

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