Penn Station in 1910, when the platforms were open to the circulation area and the original workers’ tools were still lying around.
High res shot here; another view here; and someone’s recent photo of an original staircase, still in use in the current (miserable) iteration of the station. (all via.)
Living outside the city would be so much more palatable if it meant walking through a place like this every day.
I love old New York. Wish I was alive for the original Penn Station.
Fried Food and Farts: The Modernization of Penn Station should be the working title for a documentary about how they colossally fucked this place up. Union Station in D.C. blows NY-Penn out of the water.
