Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #LostLandmarks
Most recents (1)
🔍 To kick off our series of #LostLandmarks, we would be remiss if we didn't start with the granddaddy of all demolished landmarks. Yes, it's the one, the only, that started it all: Pennsylvania Station. 
Popular myth traces the birth of the NYC preservation movement, and the creation of Landmarks Law, to the loss of Penn Station. (Preservation forces *had* existed in NY before Penn Station's demo, so take this interpretation with a grain of salt. That's a tale for another day.)
In 1955, the officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Corporation developed a plan to raze Penn Station and replace it with a “Palace of Progress.” 🤔 The proposed building would sprawl across two blocks, rooted over the site of Penn Station.
