Beneath Midtown Manhattan lies a sealed pedestrian tunnel most New Yorkers have never seen. Built in 1910, the Gimbels Passage once funneled thousands of commuters directly from Penn Station into the basement of the legendary Gimbels department store. Designed during the City Beautiful era by Daniel Burnham, the tunnel was a bold experiment in blending mass transit with retail power—one that quietly shaped a retail war with R.H. Macy & Co. above ground. But after the demolition of the original P
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Beneath Midtown Manhattan lies a sealed pedestrian tunnel most New Yorkers have never seen. Built in 1910, the Gimbels Passage once funneled thousands of commuters directly from Penn Station into the basement of the legendary Gimbels department store. Designed during the City Beautiful era by Daniel Burnham, the tunnel was a bold experiment in blending mass transit with retail power—one that quietly shaped a retail war with R.H. Macy & Co. above ground. But after the demolition of the original P
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