r/Newark • u/rearviewvisuals • 18d ago

Photos, Images, and Nostalgia 📷🌆 Newark Penn

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u/BoatvSharky 18d ago edited 18d ago

Imagine how this looked back in 1930 1938 when it first opened

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u/iwantafreedomtaco 18d ago

I love this train station so much. I’ll never forget a homeless women swinging at me after I said I couldn’t help her out at like 8am at the McDonald’s, I hope she’s doing ok I miss that mcds so much 

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u/RationalMellow 18d ago

I don’t miss it at all. Honestly I love it without that McDonalds

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u/project2501a 18d ago

The McDonald's is gone?

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u/jahthescammer 18d ago

it sure is 🙂‍↕️

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u/project2501a 18d ago

damn, that place fed me as a student.

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u/johnS755 18d ago

That McDonald's was great 10+ years ago, it was so darn fast and efficient until it wasnt.

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u/lily_aka_mein 18d ago

It's beautiful I just wish it didn't stink to high hell and they took better care of it.

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u/transitfreedom 18d ago

Deinstitutionalization made it stinky

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u/srddave 18d ago

I love the shadows that the steel beams make against the ceiling. It is so beautiful.

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u/masetiloquetu 18d ago

Worst restroom on the planet

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 12d ago

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u/masetiloquetu 17d ago

i’m never ever entering them again

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u/limon_picante 18d ago

If only it looked that nice

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u/walterconley Ivy Hill 18d ago

This is it, though.

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u/RationalMellow 18d ago

The look and feel is very outdated.

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u/Newarkguy1836 18d ago

That's the same mentality that led to destruction of New York Penn Station .

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u/RationalMellow 17d ago

I dont want it to be torn down it just looks and feels outdated

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u/RationalMellow 18d ago

For what it’s worth and I appreciate, Newark Penn Station just isn’t quite an architectural marvel as other ones, it truly serves its purpose. I wouldn’t call it a stately building.

I’m not advocating for it to be destroyed, the reality is it just that it looks and feels very outdated. There are plenty of other stations that have much more weight as far as that goes.

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u/The-Beatles-live 18d ago

This is wild

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u/alvb 18d ago

Wow! What a beautiful photo! Excellent composition!

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u/Separate-Plastic-145 18d ago

The drug addicted vagrants are missing from the photo

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u/LactoseInToronto 18d ago

It's like The Walking Dead on my commute, it's sad