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1910-1963 The destruction of Penn Station

"We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed." —New York Times Editorial, Oct. 30, 1963

{Said following its destruction}: "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat." —Vincent Scully, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Yale University

The fall of a New York architectural martyr
by Alex Q. Arbuckle



1911 Image: Geo. P. Hall & Son/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images



c. 1950 Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images