AS FAR AS I KNOW, THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE.

The Pennsylvania Hotel, honored in song, is to come down.  "A 1,270-foot tower, bearing the not-at-all-phallic name of PENN15, is its likely replacement."  The two old Muppets who heckled from the balcony, Statler and Waldorf, honored the two hotels hard by New York's termini.

The article concludes, "[W]e hope that the city’s most celebrated phone number ends up in deserving hands."