Slabs Atop The Metropolitan Museum

Last week a friend at lunch in Greenpoint remarked that the Metropolitan Museum's facade had several piles of limestone slabs atop the main entrance. "No one ever notices them, but they are supposedly from the old Penn Station." That classical gem of a railroad yerminal was razed to erect Madison Square Garden in the 1960s. That act of corporate vandalism has been rued by millions of New Yorkers, especially since the replacement's Penn Station has been an eyesore for commuters and travelers for decades as opposed the the previous cathedralof light and darkness. Yesterday I was invited to a rooftop gala atop the museum.