Transportation
A 3-Part Plan to Rebuild New York's Old Penn Station
It would rectify "one of the greatest civic blunders ever committed."
They say you can't repeat the past, but when the past was as lovely as New York's original Penn Station, it's worth a shot.
Richard Cameron and James Grimes of the architecture and design firm Atelier & Co., in Brooklyn, have developed a plan to rebuild New York City's old Penn Station in all its former glory. The original McKim Mead & White structure, which opened in 1910, was torn down in 1963 and replaced with the current underground station that serves 600,000 passengers a day. In Traditional Building (spotted by Curbed), Clem Labine offers the new plan's details and makes the hard sell: