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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k with a dial 7 feet indiameter. The center of this clock is on the axialline of Thirty-second Street, and 61 feet above thesidewalk. This Seventh Avenue facade was conceived espec-ially to symbolize in most imposing fashion a monu-mental gateway. It may be compared, with dueallowance for its more massive proportions, to theBrandenburg Gate in Berlin, through which passes somuch of the traffic of that city. The central entranceon Seventh Avenue leads to the main waiting roomthrough an arcade 225 feet long by 45 feet wide, flankedon both sides by shops. At the farther end of thearcade are the restaurants, lunch rooms and cafe,and beyond are the general waiting room and con-course, the latter being on the first level below thestreet. The main body of the building approximates inheight the Bourse of Paris, reaching 76 feet above thestreet level. With entrances through the two cornersof the Station on Seventh Avenue there are carriagedrives, each about 63 feet wide, or almost twice the 10
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The Pennsylvania Railroads New York Improvement width of a standard New York City street, frontedby double columns and pediments. The narrowestopening between the columns is practically equal inwidth to the arched driveways in the Louvre, throughwhich the omnibuses of Paris pass. The frontageis the same on Thirty-first and Thirty-third Streets.The walls of the exterior of the carriage drives are ofpilaster treatment for a distance of some 279 feet. The central features of the facades of the Thirty-first and Thirty-third Street sides for a distance ofabout 230 feet are formed by a colonnade openinginto the carriage driveways below. Over the centralporticos of these colonnades are ornamental clocksand eagles, similar to those in the Seventh Avenuefront. From the opening in the center, bridges forthe use of foot passengers entering from the streetlevel lead directly over the carriage driveways to thegeneral waiting room. West of these carriagecourts, and along the Eighth Avenue front, th

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