Rewind: The Destruction of Penn Station
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Last Departure Staircase in Pen Station
This is the last departure staircase, which we're standing at the top of right now. Yet this looks quite unlike the many, many escalators that are in pen station. I love the brass banisters. These are extraordinary. All 19 ten originals. And this is the last of her kind. She's you could tell on the railings themselves. It's pitted. It's old, but there's a certain dignity to them. Also, the xes and the mouldings on the sides of the stairs a it was a trait of mc kimed and white,. They loved their staircases and their railings to have these exes. You learned that ereat alfaenc
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