By Matt Grossman, Commercial Observer; October 22, 2019
Get them talking, and you’ll quickly learn that train buffs and history buffs alike still haven’t recovered from the demolition — 56 years ago this week — of the original Pennsylvania Station’s great hall in New York City. Even as the wrecking balls did their work on the marvelous stone landmark and its soaring glass-roofed atrium, critics were already inconsolable: TheNew York Times that month called the affair a “monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age.”