for us is the glimpse of original elements from the 1910 McKim, Mead & White station that’s a byproduct of the work.



According to Justin Rivers, who wrote a play about the demolition of Penn Station and who leads our long-running tour on the Remnants of Penn Station, a lot of columns and larger support beams in this area have been there since 1910. He has been referencing old photographs from Norman McGrath from the 1960s that show the same columns in place. If you look up, where the the panels of the coffered ceiling have been removed, you can see the original support beams as well.

The bottom of the original taxi ramp along 33rd Street from the old Penn Station is now visible above the ticketing area, asthe one pushed by consumer advocacy groups.

Cable lobby fights back

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), a cable lobby group, told the FCC last week that the CVCC proposal "would require re-architecting much of the MVPDs’ infrastructure, from back-office systems, to headends, uplinks, and central offices, delivery platforms, network equipment, content servers, and security components, as well as creating and deploying new devices for the home."

The NCTA said that the CVCC idea "requires consumers to lease a new government-mandated box from their MVPD in order to serve retail devices." (CVCC disputed this in one of its own filings, saying that "No separate device is necessary unless the operator prefers to provide one." Public Knowledge told Ars that cable companies could either provide new hardware or update the software