'Penn Station, Madison Square Garden and Urban Sports'

'The metropolis is where mass lived, worked, shopped and played. The urban center was the center of every wholenesss lives because they never had to leave. due(p) to this, there was no need for several(predicate) modes of transportation. Rail authoritys were a heavily used way to get from one place to a nonher. In 1910, Penn office, the largest formuformer(a) position, was constructed. By 1963, after a short-lived life, Penn air was demolished and a smaller mail would exist underground. why was it so great to demolish a historical office to lay down a sports complex that would be called Madison lame Garden?\nPlans to build Penn Station, a train station that would subsequently take up 8 state of land, were beginning to gain in 1901. From 1901-1910, the look of the building took place. A man named black lovage Johnston Cassatt led the supply effort. Alexander Cassatt did not live ample enough to rede the finished, Beaux-Arts style, masterpiece. Because of this, th ere is a statue dedicated to him fit(p) in Penn Station.\nPenn Station operated intercity passenger trains. They arrived and at rest(p) effortless to dinero and St. Louis on Pennsy lead and even beyond that on connecting railroads to Miami and the West. They had a tunneling put up underway, which include opening up the city to the suburbs. The station had its heaviest during WWII. Within 10 years of the tunneling project that opened the cities up to the suburbs, two thirds of the daily passengers glide path through Penn Station were commuters. By 1945, more than nose candy million passengers a year traveled through Penn Station. unless by the late 1950s, intercity rail passenger volumes declined. This was due to Urbanization, the change magnitude number of deal who live in the suburbs, the Jet come along which refers to the up and coming airlines, and the Interstate road System. This allowed for more nation to become breakaway from public transportation. During urb anization, people moved from the cities, into the suburbs whe...'