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Pennsylvania Station, completed in 1910 for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Midtown Manhattan, gave rail passengers direct access into New York City from the south for the first time. Designed by McKim, Mead & White, it combined a monumental Beaux-Arts exterior with vast interior spaces, including an immense waiting room, a glass-roofed concourse, and below-ground platforms and tracks arranged to separate arriving and departing travelers. Celebrated as one of New York’s greatest public spaces and a grand civic gateway, it was demolished above ground between 1963 and 1966 after postwar passenger decline. Its destruction became a defining catalyst for the modern American historic preservation movement.
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