Penn Station

Penn Station is the main railroad station in New York City. It serves more than 600,000 passengers every weekday, making it the busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere.

Penn Station is located in Midtown Manhattan close to Herald Square and the Empire State Building. It’s entirely underground, beneath Madison Square Garden, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and between 31st and 33rd Streets.

The station has 21 tracks which are fed by seven tunnels coming into the city. It’s the rail hub of the Northeast Corridor connecting New York City with Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

I pay homage to Penn Station in my new crime novel The Dead Stripper when the main character Steve Piasecki travels to New York to meet with two literary agents in the hopes of convincing one of them to represent him. When he arrives in New York it goes like this:

Fifteen minutes later.

I step off the train at Penn Station and find myself surrounded by hundreds of commuters. In case you’ve never been to Penn Station, more than 600,000 commuters pass through here every weekday. It’s the busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere and it’s entirely underground. In fact it’s underneath the historic Madison Square Garden.

To get away from the rat race I go up the first escalator I come to. But when I get out on the street, believe it or not, it looks even more congested than it looked down below. In addition to hundreds of people seemingly walking in all directions, I see cars and cabs and buses moving slowly along Seventh Avenue.

This is Midtown Manhattan, the heart of the city, and this mammoth Penn Station complex occupies two huge city blocks. It’s bounded by Seventh and Eighth avenues on the east & west, and by 31st & 33rd streets on the north and south.

Excerpt from The Dead Stripper by Barry Bowe

The Dead Stripper takes us into the worlds of opioids, drug cartels, crime, detection, the courtroom, and the New York publishing industry. Although it’s a work of fiction, every person, place, and event is inspired by real people, real places, and real events. The result is a story that rings true from beginning to end.

The release date is set for March 1st.

I’m America’s Best Crime Writer – Barry Bowe – & I approve this message.

My first book – Born to Be Wild – Published in 1992 – Still selling on Amazon & Kindle. A true story about certain members of the Warlocks motorcycle gang.

The story took 21 years to play out – many twists & turns – an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad – but these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like Cub Scouts.

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