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Why Are There Still So Many Train Stations Named Penn Station?
“They’re all named for the Pennsylvania Railroad,” says historian Albert Churella of Southern Polytechnic State University, in Georgia, and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. “In small towns, people would not have said, the Pennsylvania Station. They would have just said, the railroad station, or the depot, or what have you. They probably wouldn’t have given it a formal name.”
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I know these “Penns” all too well.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3cd13fe7e25161644c8875cacb8cc012/tumblr_mkp1slTeCa1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Why Are There Still So Many Train Stations Named Penn Station?
“They’re all named for the Pennsylvania Railroad,” says historian Albert Churella of Southern Polytechnic State University, in Georgia, and author of The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. “In small towns, people would not have said, the Pennsylvania Station. They would have just said, the railroad station, or the depot, or what have you. They probably wouldn’t have given it a formal name.”
Read more. [Images: Various]
I know these “Penns” all too well.
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The existing condition of the city-wide payphone system has created a latent opportunity to rethink the relationship between a more technologically-relevant, new payphone design and the city’s vibrant public space. The NYC Loop will serve as an access point to the latest…
The Unlikely Pair of Brooklyn Designers Who Are Building a Better Space Suit
When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. Nik had spent over two decades working in the Soviet Union and Russia as an engineer of cutting edge garments that would be used to take cosmonauts by Soyuz rocket up to the International Space Station. Ted was an artist and sculptor who had studied at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute and worked as an apprentice at a costuming studio in Manhattan. The closest he had come to having a garment of his fly to outer space was at Victoria’s Secret fashion shows, where models still wear his impressive angel wings.
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- by David Feinberg
Smithsonian Magazine: The spacesuits that kept U.S. astronauts alive now owe their survival to one woman.
“The next generation of technology will happen in places like New York…dense urban environments, where technology can be brought to bear to solve the problems of everyday people.”
Cornell NYC Tech Dean Dan Huttenlocher on “Silicon Island”
(via nycdigital)
Striking panoramic aerial view of NYC’s grid by photographer Sergey Semenov, one of the winners of this year’s Epson International Photographic Pano Awards.
Complement with the story of how NYC got its famous grid.
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Parts of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District are now the largest outdoor public WiFi zone in the city thanks to Google and the Chelsea Improvement Company.
Much larger than the city’s WiFi hotspots in payphone kiosks andsubway stations, the wireless internet network stretches from 8th Avenue to the West Side Highway and 19th Street to Gansevoort Street. The area is home to Google’s New York headquarters, upscale bars and restaurants, Chelsea Market, a portion of the High Line and the Robert Fulton Houses, a NYCHA complex. (via New Tech City)
