“Through [Pennsylvania Station] one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One scuttles in now like a rat.”

— Vincent Scully

On the 1963 destruction of New York's grand and original Pennsylvania Station and its replacement with a charmless subterranean shopping mall. <br class="br">American Architecture and Urbanism (1969) page 143 http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-pPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Through+it+one+entered+the+city+like+a+god+Perhaps+it+was+really+too+much+One+scuttles+in+now+like+a+rat%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage

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