Pennsylvania Plaza

Pennsylvania Plaza (Penn Plaza) is the office, entertainment, and hotel complex occupying and near the site of Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by 31st Street to the south, Eighth Avenue to the west, 34th Street to the north, and Seventh Avenue to the east.

One Penn Plaza in May 2005
14 Penn Plaza in September 2013

It includes the current Madison Square Garden and its Theater, opened in 1968; the current below-ground Pennsylvania Station; and the One Pennsylvania Plaza and Two Pennsylvania Plaza office buildings.

Other buildings around the complex use the Pennsylvania Plaza name as an alternate address, such as the 5 Penn Plaza office building on Eighth Avenue, to the northwest; the Pennsylvania Building at 225 West 34th Street (14 Penn Plaza), north of the station; and the Hotel Pennsylvania at 401 Seventh Avenue (15 Penn Plaza), east of the station. The numbering of the Penn Plaza addresses around the area does not follow a consistent pattern.[1]

The Penn Plaza complex remains one of the most controversial in New York City history because it involved the destruction, beginning in 1963, of the original McKim, Mead and White–designed Penn Station (1910), a revered piece of New York architecture. Its replacements were what architects and civic purists regard as mediocre office and entertainment structures.

The demolition of the first Penn Station led to the city's landmarks preservation movement and helped save another landmark of railway architecture, Grand Central Terminal.[2]

With the sports arena and railroad station at its hub and 34th Street retailers, including Macy's, nearing the complex, Pennsylvania Plaza remains one of the busier transportation, business, and retailing neighborhoods in Manhattan.

Tenants

References
  1. Lyons, Richard D. (May 22, 1988). "How Builders Invent Vanity Addresses". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  2. Collins, Glenn (October 28, 2003). "40 Years After Wreckage, Bits of Old Penn Station; Ghosts of a New York Marvel Survive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  3. "Compuware Around the World". Compuware. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  4. "New York". McGraw-Hill. Archived from the original on 2010-02-26. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  5. "New York (1 Penn Plaza)". Retrieved 2020-09-11.

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