Logically, it would be on the Downtown Local (C E), but I can’t find any “tells” in the wall.
Oh, also can’t figure out (or find any photos of) where the putative subway platform entrance to a passageway to the Hotel New Yorker is (though supposedly you can request a tour from the hotel side, but I think it stops abruptly at MTA cinderblock). Also used to go into Penn Station.
(The block glass tile is still there; they just put boring airport floor over it.) Anyway, the character doesn’t really change until you get to where there’s a draped sheet pretending to be a ceiling, even though the benches haven’t moved. Then it’s just gone.
Comparison shots of the not LIRR part—from when benches existed atop tblock glass tile in the mess of advertisements the station was toward its end. Over a few more photos, you see lockers. Then construction equipment. Then the back wall is suddenly missing. But it’s still clearly Old Penn Station.
I think I found all of 2 photos I’d not yet seen that included the Guastavino tile, though I was able to create some context based on the backgrounds of images of the LIRR concourse from the 60s.
Over the past 2 (3?) years or so, I spent way too much time trying to find any sort of photos of that passage from near the head of the Downtown 1 Train into the LIRR domain of Penn Station & how exactly it landed on the concourse level.
Also not the dual aspect traffic lights.
Happy(?) 60th anniversary of the start of the destruction of old Penn Station to those who celebrate. Just like now, all these changes happened while serving as a functional (lol) train station. That’s why you’ll see photos of ppl waiting for trains but the back wall’s missing.
Does this mean I don’t have to shout my UI/UX annoyances into the void?! Only a few minutes & I already have a list of UI things that should do different things or some things.
