One for my New York City friends!

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I took the liberty of including a "7th Ave El," which never actually existed but looks like it could have.
Skip

But Skip,, You skipped over KONG!!!! Remember?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n03HxctDYuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmy_LWQCQZM

 

Shame on Skip, who could forget King Kong.....Lol

Walter Anderson posted:

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I took the liberty of including a "7th Ave El," which never actually existed but looks like it could have.
Skip

But Skip,, You skipped over KONG!!!! Remember?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n03HxctDYuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmy_LWQCQZM

 

Shame on Skip, who could forget King Kong.....Lol

You have little faith in me Mark 

NYC Fan posted:

Wow! Impressive beyond words!

I was there when Kong landed. What a mess.

Scrapiron Scher posted:

I was there when Kong landed. What a mess.

1933....a couple of years before you professor! But, how did they get Fay Wray down?

Putnam Division posted:

Razing Penn Station......ugh.....a tragedy!

Peter

The august and spacious building was designed by the architectural firm McKim Mead & White. The terminal’s brash, white, eagle-crowned exterior with 84 granite Doric columns was based on the Acropolis, the Brandenburg Gate, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Bank of England. Its vast, lofty waiting hall was derived from the ancient Roman baths of Caracalla, Diocletian and Titus.

Charles McKim, the co-founder of the famous architectural firm, pronounced his Pennsylvania Station “a monumental gateway and entrance” to New York City. He enjoyed thinking of the “well-gowned women who would sweep up and down his broad staircases,” one of his friends said.

Or, as the art historian Hilary Ballon wrote in 2002: “Penn Station did not make you feel comfortable; it made you feel important.”

The loss of Penn Station stimulated public institutions devoted to historic preservation, along with stricter rules and more intense citizen activism in New York and elsewhere. Its demolition is the stuff of New York legend, an act of architectural vandalism so unspeakable that it gave rise to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, saved Grand Central Terminal and upended the city’s development priorities.

Its too bad the Landmarks Preservation Commission refused to save Yankee Stadium. In 2009 they finally answered my numerous letters. They said the stadium lost it's landmark status as a result of the renovations done by the Steinbrenners in the early 1970's. I hated those renovations too, but it was still a landmark.

Although an actual model of Yankee Stadium would have taken up way too much real estate on my relatively small layout, I had to include some representation of the Yankee Stadium from the 1950's.

Skip, love the tribute to Yankee Stadium. 

Great modeling Skip! You've got me looking forward to my visit to NYC in June!