David Dunlap has a great story in the New York Times’ City Room about the return of an eagle head, sculpted by Adolph A. Weinman, that was salvaged from the demolition of Pennsylvania Station.
There’s lots more about bits and pieces that have been salvaged from Penn Station – some of them are fairly large.
Imagine my surprise to discover there is an Assn. of Wedding Gown Specialists dedicated to preserving that dream outfit. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Deborah Lynn Blumberg takes a look four companies that clean and preserve wedding dresses.
The Daily Mirror recommends:
Margherita Stancati, writing in the Wall Street Journal, lists what might be the world’s five greatest treasure troves, pegged to the opening of the vaults at Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple.
Julia Moskin, writing in the New York Times’ Diner’s Journal, highlights Gregory Cohen, one of the nation’s experts on American soda fountains.
Photo: Eagle from Penn Station. Credit: Kelly Shimoda for The New York Times
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All over the hideous awful new Penn Station, they have large posters of the beautiful old Penn Station, just to further depress and infuriate us.
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I go into the City about twice a week and arrive in what now passes for Penn Station. I enjoy climbing the stairways, as seen in your photogrphs, and relishing the fragments of the old Penn Startion I once knew. I arrived in NYC in the spring of 1959 and came up those same stairs into the great waiting room…truly an awesome experience. Then I stepped out the door onto 33rd Street and saw the Empire State Building towering over everything. “Surely,” I said to myself, “this is the place for me!”
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On the Long Island RR side of the station, under 33rd Street, there is still to be seen a very large mural made of glazed tile and featuring a motif of steam engine, et al, just at the entrance to the 7th Avenue subway. I was surprised that wasn’t included in the photographs. There’s a similar mural in the LIRR waiting area. For such an ugly modern edifice, Penn Station is surprisingly efficient.
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