A SHAMEFUL ACT OF VANDALISM. But if you know where to look, there are still visible bits of New York's original Pennsylvania Station, if you know where to look. (Some of the original steel-lattice columns in the train shed area also survive, truncated to support the floor of Madison Square Garden, with the trusses coated with fire-retardant and then hidden behind a cladding that fits the theming of the station building.)

The New York Times editorial that condemned the commencement of demolition of the above-ground parts of the station ended, "we will be judged by the monuments we have destroyed." Indeed, and not just for the destruction of Pennsylvania Station.