![]() ![]() Governor Cuomo requested $1.3 billion that would be used to purchase the properties that currently stand in the way of new development. The most recent news concerning the fate of Hotel Pennsylvania and the rest of the endangered buildings that fall within the footprint of the Empire State Complex comes out of recent state budget hearings. ![]() Map of architectural resources t he Empire Station Complex Draft EIS Stops on the tour include the Hotel Pennsylvania, a gorgeous 19th-century church, the largest remnant of the original Penn Station, and more. This afternoon, you can learn more about these endangered, landmark eligible buildings and what you can do to save them by joining Untapped New York’s free, virtual Jane’s Walk led by Untapped New York’s Chief Experience Officer, Justin Rivers, along with Brad Vogel of the Preservation Committee, City Club of New York, and Simeon Bankoff of the Historic Districts Council. The Hotel Pennsylvania is just one of many historic midtown buildings on the chopping block due to plans for the Empire Station Complex. The Hotel Pennsylvania “may have been a grande dame in its time,” Steven Roth told Vornado shareholders in an annual letter this spring, but, Roth declared, it is “decades past its glory and sell-by date.” In that same letter, Roth, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado Realty Trust (the company that owns the hotel budiling and manages the commercial assets of Penn Station), announced that the 1919 hotel would be razed. ![]()
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