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Manhattan Gateway New York’s Pennsylvania Station by William D. Middleton w/ DJ
Manhattan Gateway New Yorks Pennsylvania Station by William D. Middleton
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Kalmbach Books
Copyright 1996
158 pages
CONTENTS
Preface 7
A Grand Plan 11
Under the Rivers 23
Electric Traction Triumphant 39
A Great Roman Palazzo 51
Across Hell Gate 73
Manhattan Gateway 89
The Fall of Penn Station 127
Penn Station Revived 141
Bibliography 154
Index 157
At the beginning of the 20th century the Pennsylvania Railroad recognized that to place itself at parity with its principal competitor, the New York Central, it had to built its own terminal in Manhattan. Barring the way was a wide, deep, busy river, the Hudson.
The late 1800s were a time of rapid technological development, and in 1901 the railroad was able to begin a project that would take a decade and a half to complete: a new line across the marshes of New Jersey, tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers, a bridge across the Hell Gate from Long Island to the mainland, an enormous passenger-train storage and service yard, electrification, and the keystone of the project, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manhattan gateway, Pennsylvania Station. The price tag was 160 million dollars - the equivalent of 9 billion dollars today - and they were the Pennsy's dollars, not the government's.
In Manhattan Gateway, railroad historian William D. Middleton recounts the history of Pennsylvania Station: the first proposals in the late 1800s, the glory years of the 1920s, the demolition of the building in the 1960s, and Amtrak's current proposal to resurrect Penn Station by using the post office a block west of the present subterranean station. The story is enlivened and explained with photos, maps, and diagrams. It is a story that spans a century.
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