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"Not that Penn Station is the Parthenon, but it might as well be because we can never again afford a nine-acre structure of superbly detailed travertine, any more than we could build one of solid gold. It is a monument to the lost art of magnificent construction, other values aside." — The Impoverished Society, New York Times, May 5, 1963.
Photo: © Norman McGrath
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