(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.

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.