Culture in Penn District

Ride up past the fifth floor and the escalators turn to ash and oak, the last working wooden ones anywhere. They have been carrying people since the 1920s and they still creak.

Roughly daily, 11am to 9pm. Confirm before a late arrival

The old Farley post office sorting floor, reopened in 2021 under a glass roof. Kehinde Wiley set a stained glass ceiling over the 33rd Street entrance and Stan Douglas lined the walls with staged photographs of a single day in the old station in 1957.

Daily, 5am to 1am

Franciscan friars have handed out breakfast on this sidewalk every morning since 1930, through storms and through the Depression that started it. Inside, the lower church stays quiet all day and costs nothing.

Weekdays, roughly 7am to 6pm. Weekend Mass schedule only