2. There are Many Remnants of the Old Penn Station Inside the Current Station

Last night, a trailer about the Untapped Cities tour The Remnants of Penn Station was also shown, explaining the mission behind the tours and its origin as a Kickstarter gift for the off-Broadway play, The Eternal Space. Justin Rivers, the playwright of the play, gives the tours, showing that there is still a “still-beating heart of the old one.” On the tour, we show you more than a dozen remnants of the original Penn Station hidden in plain sight inside the current station, and why they still persist. They range from small tiles and floor pieces to a full building that takes up half a block. The cast-iron waiting room partition above in the Long Island Railroad concourse was only discovered in the renovations of Penn Station in the 1990s, behind a walled off area.

Join us for an upcoming tour:
Tour of the Remnants of Penn Station