In 1910, The Pennsylvania Railroad, Led By The Company's President, Alexander Cassatt, Successfully Accomplished The Enormous Engineering Feat Of Building Tunnels Under New York City's Hudson And East Rivers, Connecting The Railroad To New York And Eventually, Via The Hell Gate Bridge, To New England, Knitting Together The Entire Eastern Half Of The United States. But Just Fifty-three Years After The Station's Opening, The Unthinkable Happened: The Financially Strapped Pennsylvania Railroad Announced Penn Station Was Slated To Be Destroyed In Order To Build Madison Square Garden.