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A 7,500-pound eagle sculpture from the top of the original 1910 Penn Station building has been returned after years in hiding!
The original Penn Station building that opened in 1910 had 22 stone eagles perched around its cornice (we tracked down 19 of them). When the station was demolished in the 1960s, the eagles took flight to various destinations along the east coast, from a train station on Long Island to a zoo in D.C. Two of the original eagles stayed at Penn, sitting at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, but during renovations to the site in 2019, these two eagles also flew the coop and their whereabouts were unknown.
Now, Vornado Realty Trust has brought one of those eagles home. After a deep cleaning by Urban Art Projects, the 7,500-pound, 115-year-old granite eagle sits proudly in PENN 1’s West Plaza, a privately owned public space or POPS. The second original eagle still needs some restoration work, and Vornado is working on finding the perfect place for its nest.
A replica eagle cast in aluminum sits 31 stories above the street on the rooftop of PENN 2 in an amenity space for tenants, aptly dubbed “The Perch.” And with views like this, it’s quite an enviable spot.
Visit the original Penn eagle when you join one of Untapped New York’s Remnants of Penn Station tours, where we reveal even more leftovers from the 1910 station hidden within the modern-day transit hub.
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