Penn Station, Madison Square Garden and Urban Sports

The city is where heap lived, worked, shopped and played. The city was the center of every anes lives because they never had to leave. Due to this, thither was no need for diametrical modes of transportation. Railways were a heavily utilize way to get from one place to another. In 1910, Penn Station, the largest set up lay, was constructed. By 1963, after a short-lived life, Penn Station was pulverize and a smaller station would exist underground. Why was it so important to demolish a historical site to progress to a sports complex that would be cal guide Madison Square garden?\nPlans to build Penn Station, a film station that would modernr form up 8 earth of land, were beginning to evolve in 1901. From 1901-1910, the construction of the building took place. A man named Alexander Johnston Cassatt led the planning effort. Alexander Cassatt did not live long adequate to see the finished, Beaux-Arts style, masterpiece. Because of this, there is a statue dedicated to him loca ted in Penn Station.\nPenn Station operated intercity passenger trains. They arrived and leave daily to Chicago and St. Louis on Pennsy rails and even beyond that on connecting railroads to Miami and the West. They had a tunneling range underway, which included opening up the city to the suburbs. The station had its heaviest during WWII. deep down 10 years of the tunneling run across that opened the cities up to the suburbs, ii thirds of the daily passengers overture with Penn Station were commuters. By 1945, to a greater extent than 100 million passengers a year traveled through Penn Station. But by the late 1950s, intercity rail passenger volumes declined. This was payable to Urbanization, the increasing number of hoi polloi who live in the suburbs, the resiny Age which refers to the up and coming airlines, and the Interstate Highway System. This allowed for more people to become sovereign from public transportation. During urbanization, people travel from the cities, into the suburbs whe...