Tangent, but Conquering Gotham is an interesting history of how New York Penn Station came to be and its eventual, uh replacement, with the current structure.

Tangent, but Conquering Gotham is an interesting history of how New York Penn Station came to be and its eventual, uh replacement, with the current structure. Turns out, before the Pennsylvania Railroad built the tunnels under the river , you had to take a ferry from New Jersey.