Stone eagles stood guard over New York City's Pennsylvania Station in the mid-1930s. Getty Images One of the granite eagles is gently lifted from its perch atop the old Penn Station in July 1966.

Penn Station so badly needed a complete overhaul that every minor task completed as part of the $22 billion renovation project is cause for celebration. Photograph: Marc A. Hermann ...

In pre-pandemic times, Penn Station served roughly 600,000 passengers per day on regional rail lines from New Jersey and Long Island, Amtrak and the New York subway system.

Architect Alexandros Washburn presents the Grand Penn plan, a neo-classical redesign for Penn Station (renderings, inset) at the New York Historical on Tuesday.

Stone eagles stood guard over New York City’s Pennsylvania Station in the mid-1930s. Getty Images One of the granite eagles is gently lifted from its perch atop the old Penn Station in July 1966.