#80 Pennsylvania Station

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2009

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The story of Pennsylvania Station involves more than just nostalgia for the long-gone temple of transportation as designed by the great McKim, Meade and White. It's a tale of incredible tunnels, political haggling and big visions. Find out why the original Penn Station was built to look so classical, why it was then torn down, and what strange behaviors the tunnels that connect it to New Jersey exhibit every night. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 80 pencil venue station. Hey, it's the Bowry Boys. Hey
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0:20.8	Hello there and welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young and I'm Tom Myers today
0:25.2	We're going to talk about a building that's rather steeped in legend
0:28.5	I would say but it still plays that millions of New Yorkers go through every year
0:32.9	It's one of our main traffic hubs Penn station the funny thing. I think Greg about Penn station is that when we started researching this topic
0:40.7	We thought that we'd be talking just you know primarily about the station that building that sits between 31st and 33rds
0:47.5	Straight over on the west side. It used to be of course a big beautiful bow arts building that is no longer there today
0:54.7	It's some sort of the catacombs underneath Madison Square Garden, I guess right sort of in the basement
1:00.1	So our podcast is about the original Penn station that sits on the west side and also about the Pennsylvania Railroad and its journey into Manhattan and the
1:10.2	sacred story behind this isn't just this terminal but of an amazing engineering feat that actually
1:16.9	Involved for the first time getting people over the Hudson River or should they say under the Hudson River?
1:23.3	So we have a lot of tunnel. We have a lot of digging to do a lot of digging Tom into the story of Penn station
1:30.1	Since of course today's Penn station isn't even a building that you can see today
1:57.8	Which makes it a little difficult. So people you know there you may actually people who don't live here may actually not know really where it is can you set us up
2:05.6	Location wise. Yes, we are going over to the west side between 31st and 33rd Street and between 7th and 8th Avenue
2:13.9	Today that area above ground is Madison Square Garden and the whole Penn Plaza office complex a really homey place to hang out
2:23.9	However, it is one of the busiest places in the entire city with 600,000 passengers a day who are streaming into and out of that
2:32.6	Transit hub. It is the biggest transit hub in the city because it services not just
2:37.6	Intercity train travel which today is served by Amtrak, but also the New Jersey Transit the Long Island Railroad
2:45.0	And it's also a major subway hub, you know serving lines one two three the AC and E
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