The original Penn Station, a beloved beaux arts-style structure that opened around 1910, was demolished starting in 1963 and moved underground due to poor maintenance, plummeting passenger ...

presented its proposal for renovating Penn Station at the New York Historical on Tuesday, March 11, outlining a return to the original transit hub’s pre-demolition Beaux Arts glory and a total ...

Architect Alexandros Washburn presents the Grand Penn plan, a neo-classical redesign for Penn Station (renderings, inset) at the New York Historical on Tuesday. (Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York ...

aims to restore key features of the original Penn Station, which was torn down in the 1960s. The organization’s chief architect, Alexandros Washburn, presented his vision for the renovation at ...

Image A rendering of the redesigned transit hub, which would take inspiration from the original Penn Station, with grand columns and a large train hall.Credit...Grand Penn Community Alliance Yet ...

The catch, though, is a big one: Madison Square Garden — the massive arena currently perched atop the subterranean remains of the original Penn station — would have to move across the street.

Alexandros Washburn, the executive director of the advocacy group Grand Penn Community Alliance ... In its place would go a train hall that evokes the majesty of the original Pennsylvania Station, an ...

Local non-profit the Grand Penn Community Alliance has proposed a redevelopment of Penn Station based on the train station's original classical design that would include relocating Madison Square ...

Penn Station, not so much ... six decades after the original Penn got demolished. “It highlights the role of a deal maker in this project,” said Washburn. “It’s one of the reasons ...