Just look at the new PATH terminal at the World Trade Center. A beautiful new gateway to the city will inspire, but doesn’t necessarily translate as a transportation improvement. Tunnels, tracks and platforms aren’t necessarily sexy. Some of the over-the-top plans for Penn Station’s future replacement may be inspiring but seem to be an exercise of distraction to the more important needs to expand the track infrastructure, in particular, constructing new Hudson River tunnels. That being said, the destruction of old Penn Station was an architectural crime, but it served as a terrible wake-up call to New York City (and the nation) that helped save so many other landmarks. That infrastructure legacy has outlived the old station and continues to serve the city, metropolitan area and the entire Northeast Corridor. My biggest takeaway from “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station” was this: Old Penn Station’s biggest gift to New York City was not its architecture, but the rail infrastructure bringing trains in and out of the city via the Hudson River and East River tunnels and the Hell Gate Bridge.