Passengers wait in Penn Station's airy concourse in 1962 Interior concourse of New York's Pennsylvania Station in 1962. The Beaux-Arts style station (designed by McKim, Mead, and White) was completed in 1910. Despite a fight to save the building that began in 1961, the station was demolished from 1963 to 1966. Penn Station's destruction provided an important catalyst for the passage of New York City's Landmarks Law in 1965. Historic American Buildings Survey/Cervin Robinson. Image and caption from https://www.nps.gov/subjects/historicpreservation/national-historic-preservation-act.htm

May Is National Historic Preservation Month