Pennsylvania Plaza Explained

Pennsylvania Plaza (Penn Plaza) is a complex of 14 buildings in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, including New York Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. It is one of the busier transportation, business, and retailing areas in Manhattan.

Buildings

Buildings using the Penn Plaza address include:

• One Penn Plaza
• Two Penn Plaza
• 4 Pennsylvania Plaza - Madison Square Garden^[1]
• 5 Penn Plaza - office building on Eighth Avenue
• 7 Penn Plaza (370 Seventh Avenue) ^[2]
• 9 Penn Plaza - houses Nick and Stef's Steakhouse NYC
• 11 Penn Plaza
• 225 West 34th Street (14 Penn Plaza)
• 15 Penn Plaza - proposed^[3]

The numbering of the Penn Plaza addresses does not follow a consistent pattern.^[4]

Development

Development 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. The demolition of the first Penn Station led to the city's landmarks preservation movement and helped save another landmark of railway architecture, Grand Central Terminal.^[5]

Tenants

1 Penn Plaza

• WSP Global^[6]

2 Penn Plaza

• Information Builders
• MSG Entertainment^[7]
• Schoology

11 Penn Plaza

• AMC Networks^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Getting to Madison Square Garden . Madison Square Garden.
2. Web site: 7 Penn Plaza.
3. News: Where You Can Still Glimpse the Glory of a Vanished Grand Hotel . Dan . Barry . . December 29, 2023 . limited.
4. News: Lyons . Richard D. . How Builders Invent Vanity Addresses . . May 22, 1988 . limited.
5. News: Collins . Glenn . 40 Years After Wreckage, Bits of Old Penn Station; Ghosts of a New York Marvel Survive . . October 28, 2003 . limited.
6. Web site: New York (1 Penn Plaza) .
7. Web site: Contact . MSG Entertainment.
8. Web site: CONTACT US . AMC Networks.