Penn Station Statues in Jersey Meadowlands???

Mike,

I remember our Dad taking us by some place in Secaucus where some of the columns were left dumped on the ground.  It's too bad he passed away last May 6 as he probably could've given us directions or landmarks to that place.   (I can still remember all the times we diverted off of Route 3 in Secaucus and went through Moonachie on our way back to Hawthorne from visiting my aunt in Jersey City in the 1960s.)

You may want to read this document and then contact the organization that published it as it seems like they may know where the debris was dumped.

The demolition of the late, GREAT Penn Station was nothing short of "a monumental act of vandalism"!

NOTE: The quote above appeared in a New York Times article about the destruction of the splendid and irreplaceable artifice.

One can grasp the wonder of the late, great Penn Station at the RR Museum of PA, where the larger than life bronze statue of PRR President Alexander Cassat that resided in NY Penn is now displayed.

from Wikipedia (I've read similar comments elsewhere):

quote:

The controversy over the demolition of such a well-known landmark, and its replacement by what continues to be widely^{[by whom?]} deplored, are often cited as catalysts for the architectural preservation movement in the United States. New laws were passed to restrict such demolition. Within the decade, Grand Central Terminal was protected under the city's new landmarks preservation act, a protection upheld by the courts in 1978 after a challenge by Grand Central's owner, Penn Central.

The outcry over the loss of Penn Station prompted activists to question the “development scheme” mentality cultivated by New York's “master builder”, Robert Moses. Public protests and a rejection of his plan by the city government meant an end to Moses's plans for a Lower Manhattan Expressway.

In the longer run, the sense that something irreplaceable had been lost contributed to the erosion of confidence in Modernism itself and its sweeping forms of urban renewal. Interest in historic preservation was strengthened. Comparing the new and the old Penn Station, renowned Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully once wrote, “One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.” This feeling, shared by many New Yorkers, has led to movements for a new Penn Station that could somehow atone for the loss of an architectural treasure

Penn Station article