Midtown’s historic Hotel Pennsylvania is slated for demolition. According to a recent stat
Midtown’s historic Hotel Pennsylvania is slated for demolition. According to a recent statement by Vornado, the owner of the site, the valuable Seventh Avenue site will be razed and replaced with a commercial office building, likely the proposed PEN15 (not a joke) supertall office tower. The hotel was constructed in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, who unlike the New York Central Railroad at Grand Central, did not embrace real estate ventures surrounding Penn Station – potentially their fatal flaw when the railroad went bankrupt in the 1960s. Designed by Mckim, Mead & White, the architects behind Penn Station and the adjacent Farley Post Office, the hotel was the largest in the world when it opened and is currently the fourth largest in the city. The hotel was closed indefinitely on April 1st of 2020 following multiple renovation and demolition proposals. Hotel Pennsylvania is not a designated historic landmark. (at Hotel Pennsylvania NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN72MFXHKgr/?igshid=lccjn6m3dy5g -- source link