the_traveler
Engineer
The upper level has escalators on both E & W from tracks 7/8 to (I think)13/14. (The main concourse or Amtrak tracks.) Track 5/6 uses the E escalator, I am not sure what the W gate has - I have only used the E gate.
The departure hall has been rebuilt twice with slightly different layouts since the '60s. It looks nothing like it did back then. Also many more escalators have been added since then, even if one completely ignores the new east side NJTransit Concourse and the new West End Concourse.Guess I'll have to take a good look around NYP the next time I am there....my old memory of the escalator's are ''foggy''...
I do recall the original layout of the 'new' Penn Staion, in the late '60's....at that time the ticket offices were along the current 'rotunda', and there was a wall along the entrances to the west gate escalator's, which did have a pair of sliding doors to close each off....the area of the current ticket office contained retail space and restaurants...
Danny Simmons used to belt out his famous announcements, and operate the Solari Board from a glass booth above west gate, track 11-12
Ah, that may explain my lack of remembering the East Gate escalator's....(I wasn't even thinking about the two newest concourses)....The departure hall has been rebuilt twice with slightly different layouts since the '60s. It looks nothing like it did back then. Also many more escalators have been added since then, even if one completely ignores the new east side NJTransit Concourse and the new West End Concourse.Guess I'll have to take a good look around NYP the next time I am there....my old memory of the escalator's are ''foggy''...
I do recall the original layout of the 'new' Penn Staion, in the late '60's....at that time the ticket offices were along the current 'rotunda', and there was a wall along the entrances to the west gate escalator's, which did have a pair of sliding doors to close each off....the area of the current ticket office contained retail space and restaurants...
Danny Simmons used to belt out his famous announcements, and operate the Solari Board from a glass booth above west gate, track 11-12
What!?! Your safety and comfort is more important than finding out where all the escalators are located and where they lead to? I'm shocked!!I promised to look around and see if anything was going on at NYP, but based on NY weather, and the horrible cold forecast for this weekend in Buffalo, my trip is off.....
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