The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station

On a drizzly Monday morning in October of 1963, the jackhammers arrived, piercing the pink granite of New York City's Pennsylvania Station, and the monumental act of vandalism began...

Step back now into McKim, Mead & White's lost masterpiece...walk through the cathedral-like arcade into the Main Waiting Room reminiscent of the Baths of Caracalla and into the Concourse, the station's dramatic steel and glass train shed. Through rare vintage photographs and evocative text, Lorraine B. Diehl's book, The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station will bring New York City's vanished railroad station to life.

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