Beneath Midtown Manhattan lies a sealed pedestrian tunnel most New Yorkers have never seen. Built in 1910, the Gimbels Passage once funneled thousands of commuters directly from Penn Station into the basement of the legendary Gimbels department store. Designed during the City Beautiful era by Daniel Burnham, the tunnel was a bold experiment in blending mass transit with retail power—one that quietly shaped a retail war with R.H. Macy & Co. above ground. But after the demolition of the original P

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Restored footage from 1945 of people walking around Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) in New York City, United States. Constructed in 1910, this station was demolished and rebuilt between 1963 and 1966 to form the current New York Penn Station. Footage frame rate increased, upscaled and “colorized” by HistoryColored using AI technology. Footage originally from: IA 35000019 003, Internet Archive, CC BY 2.0 #history #pennstation #nyc #newyorkcity #historicalfootage | History in Color