Tuesday, January 5, 2020 – Ladies were very important and they did not mingle in waiting rooms
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021
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THE LADIES WAITING ROOM
AT PENNSYLVANIA STATION
&
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
by ephemeralnewyork
Old Penn Station’s women-only waiting room by ephemeralnewyork The original Penn Station, opened in November 1910, had many things: a beautiful, spacious building, arcades for high-end stores, 21 tracks for arriving and departing trains…and separate waiting rooms for men and women.
This diagram of the original station shows the upper part of each single-sex waiting room. No word on when these were phased out, if ever, before the old station was torn down in 1963. Interestingly, the city considered something similar around the same time as Penn Station opened: single-sex subway cars, so women didn’t have to be subjected to “brutes,” as this 1909 New York Times article about the possibility of female-only subway cars called them. That idea was ultimately abandoned.
Grand Central Terminal also had a ladies waiting room.
East 53rd Street Pier
We came upon this image of a pier on East 53rd Street from The Department of Public Charities
Another view of the 53 St. Pier
Above
The building in the background is the Consumer Brewing Co.
Below
Remains of pier being demolished for East River Drive
East 70 Street Pier
Pier we assume served the island since the sign is DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES
WE LOVE FISH, BUT FISHERMEN ARE CARELESS
MANY BIRDS HAVE BEEN INJURED BY FISHING LINE AND HOOKS BEING
ABANDONED ON THE WALKWAYS
ABANDONED FISHING LINES ON SIDEWALKS
GOOSE LOST HIS FOOT DUE TO BEING ENTANGLED IN FISHING LINES
PHOTO WILDLIFE FREEDOM FOUNDATION (C)
TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
Sutton Place Park
Janet Spencer King, Clara Bella and Gloria Herman got it right
EDITORIAL
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