The City of Deals: Where Greed and Grandiosity are Destroying the Streets

October 28, 1963 is an important unacknowledged anniversary for the city of New York. On that day, vandals with a court order began to raze Pennsylvania Station more efficiently than their predecessors did the Roman Baths of Caracalla that inspired the prominent New York architect, Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) at the height of his career. Although the Baths still stand in Rome as ruins, nothing remains of McKim’s great neoclassical railroad station that once enclosed a full six bloc...