Moynihan Train Hall New York Building, SOM NYC Architecture Photos
In the age of the coronavirus, remembering the New York City architecture of my youth
Jan 5, 2021
Moynihan Train Hall New York City
In the age of the coronavirus, remembering the New York City architecture of my youth Joel Solkoff?s Column Vol. VII, Number 3.
Thursday May 6, 2021.Rural Williamsport, Pennsylvania, US, population 28,186. {New York City’s population 8.4 million. Distance between them 192 miles}
Today’s column describes a one-day trip I took took on a battery-powered wheelchair on Tuesday February 16th from a nursing home in the New York City Borough of Queens where– the day before– I received the second dose of the Pfizer vacinne to a cab to Manhattan’s glorious new Moynihan Train Hall. Then, after a lenthy train ride to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capitol city, a one hour and 20 minute automobile ride to home. To Williamsport, my home. Now the new U.S. office of e-architect.com US Office e-architect – 800 West Fourth Street Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701 Phone 570-772-4909 or 272-230-5805 [email protected]

photo © Joel Solkoff
On the surface, there might not seem to be a parallel between a huge new train station in the largest city in the US and a luxury hotel in a little town in north central Pennsylvania. But for 1863 and the richest man in the world Peter Herdic.
Peter Herdic built a $250 thousand luxury hotel where e-architect n...