Pennsylvania Plaza (Penn Plaza) is the office, entertainment and hotel complex occupying and near the site of Pennsylvania Station. between 32nd and 34th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues in New York. Penn Stations underground Long Island Rail Road concourse Pennsylvania Station is one of New York Citys main railway stations, sharing the Pennsylvania Station name with several stations in other cities. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages None. ...

They include the current Madison Square Garden and its Theatre, opened in 1968; the current below-ground Pennsylvania Station; and the One Pennsylvania Plaza and Two Pennsylvania Plaza office buildings. (Two Penn is the headquarters of the Madison Square Garden Network and radio stations WABC and WPLJ.) Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... The Madison Square Garden Network, known simply as MSG in the metro New York area has been coving NY sports for over a decade. ... WABC AM (770 kHz New York City) NewsTalkradio 77 is the flagship station of the ABC Radio Network. ... WPLJ is a New York City radio station, broadcast on 95. ...

Other buildings around the complex use the Pennsylvania Plaza name as an alternate address, such as the 5 Penn Plaza office building on Eighth Avenue, to the northwest; the Pennsylvania Building on 34th Street (14 Penn Plaza), west of the station; and the Hotel Pennsylvania at 401 Seventh Avenue (15 Penn Plaza), west of the station.

The Penn Plaza complex remains one of the most controversial in New York City history because it involved the destruction, beginning in 1963, of the original McKim, Mead and White-designed Penn Station (1910), a revered piece of New York architecture. Its replacements were what architects and civic purists regard as mediocre office and entertainment structures, though sports fans find the Garden notable for its "hatbox" shape. McKim, Mead, and White was the premier architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. ...

The demolition of the first Penn Station led to the city's landmarks preservation movement and ironically helped save another landmark of railway architecture, Grand Central Terminal. The clock in the Main Concourse © 2004 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Grand Central Terminal (often still called Grand Central Station, although technically that is the name of the nearby post office and New York City Subway station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line) is a train station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue...

What also earned the Penn Plaza critics' ire was the relatively secretive way the decision to raze the old Penn Station came about, even though it was well known that the station's owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, was losing significant amounts of money and viewed the sale of the Penn Station air rights as a financial boost. (The railroad eventually failed anyway, after its disastrous merger with the New York Central). 1911 map The Pennsylvania Railroad (AAR reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad existing 1846–1968, after which it merged into Penn Central Transportation. ... The New York Central Railroad, known simply as the New York Central in its publicity and with the AAR reporting mark of NYC, was a railroad operating in the North-Eastern United States. ...

Still, with the sports arena and railroad station at its hub and 34th Street retailers (including Macy's adjoining the complex, Pennsylvania Plaza remains one of the busier transportation, business and retailing neighborhoods in Manhattan. Macys Department Store on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan Looking down on Macys. ...