In Manhattan he is one of three developers vying to build a grandiose office tower above New York's new Pennsylvania Station, now the Farley Post Office.

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At New York's Pennsylvania Station, hundreds of travelers headed out of town Tuesday night hoping to beat the rush.

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The Spanish neoclassical structure was built in 1930 by the American architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White, which also built New York's original Pennsylvania Station and the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Arriving in New York as the skyscrapers were going up and the excavation of two city blocks for Pennsylvania Station began, Bellows thrilled to the dynamism and enormous scale of these undertakings his seven paintings of the making of Penn Station show him engaging with landscape, the dramatic lighting effects of working at night, and handling crowds.

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In New York, City "operation Atlas" has deployed armed police at key locations like the Stock Market and Pennsylvania Station.

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