Pennsylvania Plaza

Pennsylvania Plaza (Penn Plaza) is a complex of 14 buildings in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, including New York Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.^[1] It is one of the busier transportation, business, and retailing areas in Manhattan.

One Penn Plaza in May 2005

14 Penn Plaza in September 2013

Buildings

Buildings using the Penn Plaza address include:

• One Penn Plaza
• Two Penn Plaza
• 4 Pennsylvania Plaza - Madison Square Garden^[2]
• 5 Penn Plaza - office building on Eighth Avenue
• 7 Penn Plaza (370 Seventh Avenue) ^[3]
• 9 Penn Plaza - houses Nick and Stef's Steakhouse NYC
• 11 Penn Plaza
• 225 West 34th Street (14 Penn Plaza)
• 15 Penn Plaza - proposed^[4]

The numbering of the Penn Plaza addresses does not follow a consistent pattern.^[1]

Development

Development involved the destruction, beginning in 1963, of the original McKim, Mead and White–designed Penn Station (1910), a revered piece of New York architecture. Its replacements were what architects and civic purists regard as mediocre office and entertainment structures. The demolition of the first Penn Station led to the city's landmarks preservation movement and helped save another landmark of railway architecture, Grand Central Terminal.^[5]

Tenants

1 Penn Plaza

• WSP Global^[6]

2 Penn Plaza

• Information Builders
• MSG Entertainment^[7]
• Schoology

11 Penn Plaza

• AMC Networks^[8]

References

1. Lyons, Richard D. (May 22, 1988). "How Builders Invent Vanity Addresses". The New York Times.
2. "Getting to Madison Square Garden". Madison Square Garden.
3. "7 Penn Plaza".
4. Barry, Dan (December 29, 2023). "Where You Can Still Glimpse the Glory of a Vanished Grand Hotel". The New York Times.
5. Collins, Glenn (October 28, 2003). "40 Years After Wreckage, Bits of Old Penn Station; Ghosts of a New York Marvel Survive". The New York Times.
6. "New York (1 Penn Plaza)".
7. "Contact". MSG Entertainment.
8. "CONTACT US". AMC Networks.

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