Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, Concourse from Southwest

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York, NY. Cervin Robinson, Photographer April 24, 1962. Other Title: Penn Station Related Names: Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, Stanford White. Photo 5 x 7 in. Building/structure dates: 1903 initial constructionBuilding/structure dates: 1963 demolishedSignificance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels under the North River, which enabled Pennsylvania Railroad trains to enter Manhattan directly from New Jersey for the first time.Because the trains entered on tracks below ground level, the architects did not follow any of the more common architectural forms for a railway station and designed instead a rather low, colonnade facade...The rich sequences of spaces in the terminal culminated in the great concours