Maud Newton • Penn Station in 1910, when the platforms were open...

Maud Newton

I'm a writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, the Awl, Tin House, Narrative, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Granta, the Paris Review Daily, Swink, the New York Times Book Review, B&N Review, and many other publications. I received the 2009 Narrative Prize for an excerpt from the novel I'm still writing. Though best known as a book blogger, I post only sporadically these days, and the scope of things I've written about on the site I started in 2002, maudnewton.com, is and always has been pretty broad. You can subscribe to receive packages in the mail from me at Quarterly.

Oct 05

Penn Station in 1910, when the platforms were open to the circulation area and the original workers’ tools were still lying around.
High res shot here; another view here; and someone’s recent photo of an original staircase, still in use in the current (miserable) iteration of the station. (all via.)

Penn Station in 1910, when the platforms were open to the circulation area and the original workers’ tools were still lying around.

High res shot here; another view here; and someone’s recent photo of an original staircase, still in use in the current (miserable) iteration of the station. (all via.)

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i also love old new york. beautiful
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Penn Station, 1910
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hmm… i don’t know. it might look better the way it is now…
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