Identifier: newyorkimproveme00penn (find matches)
Title: The New York improvement and tunnel extension of the Pennsylvania railroad. Issued October, 1910
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels Tunnels Tunnels
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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th similar connections inthese Boroughs, with freight stations suitably locatedto develop their commercial interests. It was planned to provide additional freightfacilities, and, by the use of the Long Island Railroad,to shorten the water transportation trip for the NewEngland traffic across New York Harbor from twelveto three and four-tenths miles. The Company considered it its duty to obtain aproper share of the golden future by judicious ex-penditures in a territory having abundant promise,whether viewed from the growth of traffic in the past,or the outlook for the future. IV Built after the Roman Doric style of architecture,the New York Station of the Pennsylvania Railroadcovers the entire area bounded by Seventh and EighthAvenues and Thirty-first and Thirty-third Streets.The depth of the property on both streets is 799 feet11 % inches, and the length of the building is 788 feet9 inches, thus allowing for extra-wide sidewalks onboth side streets and avenues. The walls extend 430 8
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Pennsylvania Station— Seventh Avenue Facade lookingNorth from Thirty-first Street Ivania Station—Detail of Thirty-third StreetEntrance to Main WaitingRoom The Pennsylvania Railroads New York Improvement feet 6 inches from Thirty-first Street to Thirty-thirdStreet, the Seventh Avenue facade signalizing themain entrance. While the facades of the station were designed tosuggest the imposing character of the ancient Romantemples and baths, the impression intended to bemade upon the layman approaching the Station, infull view of the exterior of the general waiting roomwith its huge semi-circular windows, is that of one ofthe leading railway stations of the world. In designing the exterior of the building, Messrs.McKim, Mead & White, the architects, were at painsto embody two ideas : To express in so far as was prac-ticable, with the unusual condition of tracks below thestreet surface and in spite of the absence of the con-ventional train shed, not only the exterior design of agreat

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