5. There’s a Maya Lin sculpture in Penn Station
Located above the fray, in a busy concourse between the 1/2/3 subway and the LIRR ticketing area, is Eclipsed Time by architect Maya Lin. It’s an interactive piece–the two elliptical disks move from East to West and back, creating an “eclipse” at midnight every day, when the disks are perfectly aligned.
Just nearby are also pieces by Andrew Leicester, making up Ghost Series and Day and Night, an homage to the original Penn Station: