Yep....very wrong train station, indeed !
I have always loved Grand Central; it's beautiful ( especially since its renovation/cleanup ), but it sickens me that Penn Station ( this was way before your time ) wasn't saved. That too was majestic and should have been made an historic building !
Those damned bums are really just crooks and should be swept away, as Rudy did !
From the time I was a bitty child, until I was a young adult, there was a supposed beggar at the front of Bloomies. When he died, the paper wrote him up and it came to light that he wasn't REALLY bum, owned several condos or co-ops, had a large bank account, and this was all an act!
I'm too young to have seen Penn Station in its glory but I'm well aware of the atrocity committed there and seen the old photos - should have been made a landmark.
Like I said earlier, Grand Central is a real treasure. When I work out of my Lexington Ave office, I always take a midday walk around the city. But when it's raining, I go to Grand Central and walk around there. I've discovered pretty much all the passages that lead to 48th St, Madison Ave, the subways, etc., so that I can take a 3-4 mile walk without having to step outdoors and without having to recross my steps very much.